Ip Chun quotes

Ip Chun quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“My health has benefited the most from practising Wing Chun.”
-- Ip Chun

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“A student's mentality in learning martial arts is to overcome one's problems.”
-- Ip Chun

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“As my poor father used to say In 1963, Once people start on all this Art Goodbye, moralitee! And what my father used to say Is good enough for me.”

Source : Ballads for Broadbrows (1930) "Lines for a Worthy Person"
“The obedient in art are always the forgotten . . . The country is glorious but its beauties are unknown, and but waiting for a real live artist to splash them onto canvas . . . Chop your own path. Get off the car track.”
“Only recently serious research into the relationship between photography and art has taken place. Why has it been so long in coming ? In some respects historical research is analogous with that of science. The bringing to light of factual material and the development of ideas is to a large extent cumulative. But when artists themselves were, from about 1910, beginning to tear down the bastions protecting Art in its ivory tower, questioning the idea of Art with a capital 'A', photography was inevitably to assume a new stature both in the eyes of artists and the public, too.”
“What made me want to play guitar was that painting of Wings in concert in the gatefold of Wings Over America. It looked so exciting... I wanted to be part of it.”
“Lampard picks his head up and knocks it out to the wing.”
“Martial arts have been a part of my life for as long as I can remember.”
“If mere mechanical efficiency can make everyone a martial artist, then all is well. Unfortunately, combat, like freedom, is something that can not be preconceived.”
“What is true stillness? Stillness in movement.”
“When you really get technique... there is no strength that will stop you.”
“Karate is for life, not points.”

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