Quotes coined by Ignatius Yeo during the various stages of his art journey as he reflects while working on his artworks. Several of them were coined through inspirations as well as frustrations and anguishes in 2022....well into 2023....into yet another year, 2024. As always enjoying those moments.
"There are times in fact most of the time I prefer to do nothing to cause something as there is no thing such as nothing."
Coined on 28 Mar 2024
"Always ask yourself WHAT is it I'm doing, WHY I'm doing it before doing it or figure out or plan on HOW to do it and if you do plan at all that is."
'Knowledge is wealth ya? Unless you invest in your knowledge to make knowledge work for you."
"it's not what you already know, it's what you don't know yet. Do you know what you don't know yet anyway??"
"Imperfection is realism."
"Dare to dare. If you dare not then how do you dare to dare."
Coined on 7 Feb 2024
"Kiasu-ism compounds and bleeds into kiasi-ism, and the rest they say is history when Murphy takes over meting out his law."
Coined on 20 Nov 2023
"Dare not to dare then you'll never be there."
Coined on 26 Aug 2023
"Every painting should tell a story. Every of your art series should then narrate an epic."
Coined on 2 Aug 2023
"Care to research.
Dare to explore.
LEARN TO LEARN.
DARE TO DARE.
LEARN TO DARE.
DARE TO LEARN."
Coined in Jul 2023 and enhanced on 14 Mar 2024
""There ain't nothing I've not seen or experience. I've learned everything." said the frog in the well."
Coined in Jul 2023
"If you wanna travel far, walk alone. Many would beg to differ but I have done that umpteen times in my life so it is possible if you make it possible. It is your mindset."
Coined on 9 Jul 2023
"Knowledge is not power
but bits and pieces of data occupying the space of brain
until you apply them."
Coined on 10 Jun 2023
"Change nothing, nothing changes."
Adapted from Donna Barnes on 10 Jun 2023
"Mindset; taken as offensive criticism or as constructive feedback?"
Coined on 23 May 2023
"Art is liberation as it fuses and transcends all and every boundary regardless."
Coined on 3 May 2023
"Be uncomfortable with the comfortable to cross over to be comfortable with the uncomfortable."
Coined on 12 Feb 2023 and revised on 14 May 2023
The 7 dares of art. Dare to:
1. Be imaginative
2. Be creative
3. Be daring
4. Be unconventional (different)
5. Be inquisitive (curious)
6. Be explorative (experiment)
7. Most importantly, "Be yourself: your inner self". (Listen to your inner voice.) Relax and Enjoy.
In short, DARE TO BE DIFFERENT AND BE VISIBLE.
Coined on 1 Jan 2023
The 7 "Be your yourself: your inner self" guide
1. See (Scan)
2. Observe (Eyeball)
3. Absorb
4. Reorganise
5. Process
6. Compose
7. Apply (Interpret)
Coined on 1 Jan 2023
"Dare to be creative.
Dare to imagine.
Dare to be unconventional.
Dare to be daring.
The main thoroughfare is too crowded to have a visual of you."
Coined on 30 Dec 2022
"d2e2enp - dare to explore, to experiment, practise, practise, practise, practise."
Coined on 7 Nov 2022
"Every line and tone should cause a balance in the harmony of space; they should be purposeful."
Coined on 29 Oct 2022
"When you don't know what you don't know how are you to know how to compose more meaningfully or relate to the subject matter more convincingly."
Coined in Oct 2022
"Art is about knowing how to paint what you know you want to paint."
Coined in Oct 2022
"A painting is poetry in motion of you waltzing with your lines."
Coined in Aug 2022
"A painting can only make its presence felt when you have learnt and understood why you first must take your dot for a walk before you even think of taking that dot for a waltz."
Coined in June 2022
"Being inquisitive causes you to observe."
Coined on 1 Apr 2022
"Burn the bridge behind you, yes? NO, bomb it!"
Coined in Mar 2022
"Anything that is worthwhile in life takes effort to earn it (要赚回来的不是应该的). Do not assume you have the privilege or entitlement."
Coined in Mar 2022
"What do you gain from 100 like hits than a negative comment?"
Coined in Mar 2022
"Walk the talk? Talk the walk?
Talk less and walk the walk, and be sure to stop and smell the roses."
Coined in Mar 2022
"Explore, experiment and practice enforces you to know better what you already know as well as causes you to discover you don't know what you don't know."
Coined in Mar 2022
"Deliberate accidents are mistakes on-demand."
Coined in Mar 2022
"Tunnel vision.
Frog in the well.
Wearing blinkers.
One-track-mind.
What do they have in common?
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
Kiasi-sm."
Coined in Mar 2022
"Take a negative comment as a positive feedback. Be flattered."
Coined in Feb 2022
"Think out-of-the-box outside the box. Dump the box for goodness sake!"
Coined in 2018 and enhanced in Mar 2022
"Break the rules but do it for a reason."
Unknown
Coined on 28 Mar 2024
"Always ask yourself WHAT is it I'm doing, WHY I'm doing it before doing it or figure out or plan on HOW to do it and if you do plan at all that is."
'Knowledge is wealth ya? Unless you invest in your knowledge to make knowledge work for you."
"it's not what you already know, it's what you don't know yet. Do you know what you don't know yet anyway??"
"Imperfection is realism."
"Dare to dare. If you dare not then how do you dare to dare."
Coined on 7 Feb 2024
"Kiasu-ism compounds and bleeds into kiasi-ism, and the rest they say is history when Murphy takes over meting out his law."
Coined on 20 Nov 2023
"Dare not to dare then you'll never be there."
Coined on 26 Aug 2023
"Every painting should tell a story. Every of your art series should then narrate an epic."
Coined on 2 Aug 2023
"Care to research.
Dare to explore.
LEARN TO LEARN.
DARE TO DARE.
LEARN TO DARE.
DARE TO LEARN."
Coined in Jul 2023 and enhanced on 14 Mar 2024
""There ain't nothing I've not seen or experience. I've learned everything." said the frog in the well."
Coined in Jul 2023
"If you wanna travel far, walk alone. Many would beg to differ but I have done that umpteen times in my life so it is possible if you make it possible. It is your mindset."
Coined on 9 Jul 2023
"Knowledge is not power
but bits and pieces of data occupying the space of brain
until you apply them."
Coined on 10 Jun 2023
"Change nothing, nothing changes."
Adapted from Donna Barnes on 10 Jun 2023
"Mindset; taken as offensive criticism or as constructive feedback?"
Coined on 23 May 2023
"Art is liberation as it fuses and transcends all and every boundary regardless."
Coined on 3 May 2023
"Be uncomfortable with the comfortable to cross over to be comfortable with the uncomfortable."
Coined on 12 Feb 2023 and revised on 14 May 2023
The 7 dares of art. Dare to:
1. Be imaginative
2. Be creative
3. Be daring
4. Be unconventional (different)
5. Be inquisitive (curious)
6. Be explorative (experiment)
7. Most importantly, "Be yourself: your inner self". (Listen to your inner voice.) Relax and Enjoy.
In short, DARE TO BE DIFFERENT AND BE VISIBLE.
Coined on 1 Jan 2023
The 7 "Be your yourself: your inner self" guide
1. See (Scan)
2. Observe (Eyeball)
3. Absorb
4. Reorganise
5. Process
6. Compose
7. Apply (Interpret)
Coined on 1 Jan 2023
"Dare to be creative.
Dare to imagine.
Dare to be unconventional.
Dare to be daring.
The main thoroughfare is too crowded to have a visual of you."
Coined on 30 Dec 2022
"d2e2enp - dare to explore, to experiment, practise, practise, practise, practise."
Coined on 7 Nov 2022
"Every line and tone should cause a balance in the harmony of space; they should be purposeful."
Coined on 29 Oct 2022
"When you don't know what you don't know how are you to know how to compose more meaningfully or relate to the subject matter more convincingly."
Coined in Oct 2022
"Art is about knowing how to paint what you know you want to paint."
Coined in Oct 2022
"A painting is poetry in motion of you waltzing with your lines."
Coined in Aug 2022
"A painting can only make its presence felt when you have learnt and understood why you first must take your dot for a walk before you even think of taking that dot for a waltz."
Coined in June 2022
"Being inquisitive causes you to observe."
Coined on 1 Apr 2022
"Burn the bridge behind you, yes? NO, bomb it!"
Coined in Mar 2022
"Anything that is worthwhile in life takes effort to earn it (要赚回来的不是应该的). Do not assume you have the privilege or entitlement."
Coined in Mar 2022
"What do you gain from 100 like hits than a negative comment?"
Coined in Mar 2022
"Walk the talk? Talk the walk?
Talk less and walk the walk, and be sure to stop and smell the roses."
Coined in Mar 2022
"Explore, experiment and practice enforces you to know better what you already know as well as causes you to discover you don't know what you don't know."
Coined in Mar 2022
"Deliberate accidents are mistakes on-demand."
Coined in Mar 2022
"Tunnel vision.
Frog in the well.
Wearing blinkers.
One-track-mind.
What do they have in common?
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
Kiasi-sm."
Coined in Mar 2022
"Take a negative comment as a positive feedback. Be flattered."
Coined in Feb 2022
"Think out-of-the-box outside the box. Dump the box for goodness sake!"
Coined in 2018 and enhanced in Mar 2022
"Break the rules but do it for a reason."
Unknown
These are his favourite quotes of artists in their own right that inspire him over the years of his art journey.
"There is no must in art because art is free."
Wassily Kandinsky (1866 - 1944)
"In many cases, improvement is not about doing more things right, but about doing less things wrong... Don't look for things to add. Look for things to eliminate."
James Clear (22 Jan 1986 -
"....the fewest possible lines and tones; just enough to cause form, texture and effect to be felt. Every brush touch must be fully-charged with meaning, and useless details eliminated."
Arthur Wesley Dow (6 Apr 1857 - 13 Dec 1922)
Author of "Composition"
"A painting must tell a story."
Joseph Zbukvic (1952 -
"A picture is a poem without words."
Horace (8 December 65 BC – 27 November 8 BC)
"Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is a painting that speaks."
Plutarch (46 AD - 119 AD)
"Tell your own story, and you will be interesting."
Louise Bourgeois (25 Dec 1911 - 31 May 2010)
"Art should be meaningful in the most shallow way."
Andy Warhol (6 Aug 1928 - 22 Feb 1987)
"Good artists copy, great artists steal."
Pablo Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973)
"Art should be experimental - you play, compose and each piece will eventually become part of a series in the making."
Pacita Abad (5 Oct 1946 - 7 Dec 2004)
"Different themes inevitably require different methods of expression. This does not imply either evolution or progress; it is a matter of following the idea one wants to express and the way in which one wants to express it."
Pablo Picasso (25 October 1881 - 8 April 1973)
"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grow up."
Pablo Picasso (25 October 1881 - 8 April 1973)
"I believe that you can always learn from observation."
Tamara Tunie (14 Mar 1959 -
"Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different."
Albert Szent Gyorgi (16 Sep 1893 - 22 Oct 1986)
"If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done."
Bruce Lee (27 Nov 1940 - 20 Jul 1973)
"I fear not the man who has practised 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practised one kick 10,000 times."
Bruce Lee (27 Nov 1940 - 20 Jul 1973)
"Be water, my friend.
Empty your mind.
Be formless, shapeless, like water.
You put water into a cup, it becomes the cup.
You put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle.
You put it into a teapot, it becomes the teapot.
Now water can flow or it can crash.
Be water, my friend."
Bruce Lee (27 Nov 1940 - 20 Jul 1973)
"Don't have to reinvent the wheel. Reinvent yourself!"
"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep."
Scott Adams (8 Jun 1957 -
"Since my career started, I've basically done the same thing over and over again. I mean that in a positive way. I think that's what good art is - same process and research, but refining your strategy."
Rachel Whiteread (20 Apr 1963 -
"Do not fear mistakes. There are none."
Miles Davis (26 May 1926 - 28 Sep 1991)
"Why don't we get the best out of people?
It's because we've been educated to become good workers, rather than creative thinkers. Students with restless mind and bodies - far from being cultivated for their energy and curiosity - are ignored or even stigmatised, with TERRIBLE consequences."
Sir Ken Robinson (4 Mar 1950 - 21 Aug 2020)
"Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think."
Albert Einstein (14 Mar 1879 - 18 Apr 1955)
"Art has the role in education of helping children become like themselves instead of more like everyone else."
Sydney Gurewitz Clemens (1939 -
"Not everyone will understand your journey. That's okay. You're here to live your life, NOT to make everyone understand."
Banksy aka Robin Gunningham (?) aka Robert Banks (28 Jul 1974 -
...
"Not everyone will understand your journey. That's fine. It's NOT their journey to make sense of. IT'S YOURS."
Zero Dean
...
"....comparing myself to my competitors. But I realised there was absolutely no point in that - because these people have nothing to do with my life, my journey, and my successes."
Shanti Pereira (20 Sep 1996 -
"If you want something you have never had, you must be willing to do something you have never done."
Thomas Jefferson
"Work hard in silence, let your success be your noise."
Anonymous
“If you don’t like what you’re getting, then change what you’re doing. It’s up to you.”
Pat Croc
"Be it realism or lyrical expression, the key is to convey emotions."
Wu Guanzhong (
"A dancing line is a happy line."
KK Ch'ng (1974
If you want something you have never had, you must be willing to do something you have never done."
Thomas Jefferson
'Life begins at the end of your comfort zone."
Neale Donald Walsch
"We don't make mistakes, just happy little accidents."
Bob Ross
"Creativity takes courage."
Henri Matisse (31 Dec 1869 - 3 Nov 1954)
"DRAWING is like making an impressive gesture with the advantage of permanence."
Henri Matisse (31 Dec 1869 - 3 Nov 1954)
"If you know the way broadly, you will see it in everything."
Miyamoto Musahi (1584 - 13 Jun 1645)
Wassily Kandinsky (1866 - 1944)
"In many cases, improvement is not about doing more things right, but about doing less things wrong... Don't look for things to add. Look for things to eliminate."
James Clear (22 Jan 1986 -
"....the fewest possible lines and tones; just enough to cause form, texture and effect to be felt. Every brush touch must be fully-charged with meaning, and useless details eliminated."
Arthur Wesley Dow (6 Apr 1857 - 13 Dec 1922)
Author of "Composition"
"A painting must tell a story."
Joseph Zbukvic (1952 -
"A picture is a poem without words."
Horace (8 December 65 BC – 27 November 8 BC)
"Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is a painting that speaks."
Plutarch (46 AD - 119 AD)
"Tell your own story, and you will be interesting."
Louise Bourgeois (25 Dec 1911 - 31 May 2010)
"Art should be meaningful in the most shallow way."
Andy Warhol (6 Aug 1928 - 22 Feb 1987)
"Good artists copy, great artists steal."
Pablo Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973)
"Art should be experimental - you play, compose and each piece will eventually become part of a series in the making."
Pacita Abad (5 Oct 1946 - 7 Dec 2004)
"Different themes inevitably require different methods of expression. This does not imply either evolution or progress; it is a matter of following the idea one wants to express and the way in which one wants to express it."
Pablo Picasso (25 October 1881 - 8 April 1973)
"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grow up."
Pablo Picasso (25 October 1881 - 8 April 1973)
"I believe that you can always learn from observation."
Tamara Tunie (14 Mar 1959 -
"Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different."
Albert Szent Gyorgi (16 Sep 1893 - 22 Oct 1986)
"If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done."
Bruce Lee (27 Nov 1940 - 20 Jul 1973)
"I fear not the man who has practised 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practised one kick 10,000 times."
Bruce Lee (27 Nov 1940 - 20 Jul 1973)
"Be water, my friend.
Empty your mind.
Be formless, shapeless, like water.
You put water into a cup, it becomes the cup.
You put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle.
You put it into a teapot, it becomes the teapot.
Now water can flow or it can crash.
Be water, my friend."
Bruce Lee (27 Nov 1940 - 20 Jul 1973)
"Don't have to reinvent the wheel. Reinvent yourself!"
"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep."
Scott Adams (8 Jun 1957 -
"Since my career started, I've basically done the same thing over and over again. I mean that in a positive way. I think that's what good art is - same process and research, but refining your strategy."
Rachel Whiteread (20 Apr 1963 -
"Do not fear mistakes. There are none."
Miles Davis (26 May 1926 - 28 Sep 1991)
"Why don't we get the best out of people?
It's because we've been educated to become good workers, rather than creative thinkers. Students with restless mind and bodies - far from being cultivated for their energy and curiosity - are ignored or even stigmatised, with TERRIBLE consequences."
Sir Ken Robinson (4 Mar 1950 - 21 Aug 2020)
"Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think."
Albert Einstein (14 Mar 1879 - 18 Apr 1955)
"Art has the role in education of helping children become like themselves instead of more like everyone else."
Sydney Gurewitz Clemens (1939 -
"Not everyone will understand your journey. That's okay. You're here to live your life, NOT to make everyone understand."
Banksy aka Robin Gunningham (?) aka Robert Banks (28 Jul 1974 -
...
"Not everyone will understand your journey. That's fine. It's NOT their journey to make sense of. IT'S YOURS."
Zero Dean
...
"....comparing myself to my competitors. But I realised there was absolutely no point in that - because these people have nothing to do with my life, my journey, and my successes."
Shanti Pereira (20 Sep 1996 -
"If you want something you have never had, you must be willing to do something you have never done."
Thomas Jefferson
"Work hard in silence, let your success be your noise."
Anonymous
“If you don’t like what you’re getting, then change what you’re doing. It’s up to you.”
Pat Croc
"Be it realism or lyrical expression, the key is to convey emotions."
Wu Guanzhong (
"A dancing line is a happy line."
KK Ch'ng (1974
If you want something you have never had, you must be willing to do something you have never done."
Thomas Jefferson
'Life begins at the end of your comfort zone."
Neale Donald Walsch
"We don't make mistakes, just happy little accidents."
Bob Ross
"Creativity takes courage."
Henri Matisse (31 Dec 1869 - 3 Nov 1954)
"DRAWING is like making an impressive gesture with the advantage of permanence."
Henri Matisse (31 Dec 1869 - 3 Nov 1954)
"If you know the way broadly, you will see it in everything."
Miyamoto Musahi (1584 - 13 Jun 1645)
