My philosophy is that I'm an artist. I perform an ... -Steve Prefontaine

My philosophy is that I'm an artist. I perform an art not with a paint brush or a camera. I perform with bodily movement. Instead of exhibiting my art in a museum or a book or on canvas, I exhibit my art in front of the multitudes.

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Steve Prefontaine Quotes to Explore

It's not who's the best - it's who can take the most pain....
To give anything less than your best, is to sacrifice the gift....
Some people create with words or with music or with a brush and paints. I like to make something beautiful when I run. I like to make people stop and ...
For me, running against the Poles and Czechs would be like running against high school kids. And I hate all this gung-ho, run-for-the-red-white-and-bl...
If I want to go to Europe and get thrashed by the Europeans, that's my business. Every race I lose I learn from and get tougher....
My philosophy is that I'm an artist. I perform an art not with a paint brush or a camera. I perform with bodily movement. Instead of exhibiting my art...
A race is a work of art that people can look at and be affected in as many ways they're capable of understanding....
I'm going to work so that it's a pure guts race at the end, and if it is, I am the only one who can win it....
I have a positive mental attitude, and I think I'm divine, but I also think it takes a heck of a lot of blood, sweat and tears....

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I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also t...
Art is for everybody....
It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully....
I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring in that art that God has given me in order to extend my life as long as possible....
Art? That's a man's name....
Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day....
Extreme complication is contrary to art....
Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable....
The mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the head a...
When I was making my debut as an artist, I felt that it was very important that I try to combine the background of my own culture, my people, and the ...