Alan Watts Quotes, Art Quotes, Light Quotes

The truth is revealed by removing things that stand in its light, an art not unlike sculpture, in which the artist creates, not by building, but by hacking away.

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Even the wisest man grows tense With some sort of violence Before he can accomplish fate, Know his work or choose his mate. Poet and sculptor, do the work, Nor let the modish painter shirk

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One who has few must prepare against the enemy; one who has many makes the enemy prepare against him.

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If we examine a work of ordinary art, by means of a powerful microscope, all traces of resemblance to nature will disappear - but the closest scrutiny of the photogenic drawing discloses only a more absolute truth, a more perfect identity of aspect with the thing represented.

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A really well-made buttonhole is the only link between Art and Nature.

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When strong, avoid them. If of high morale, depress them. Seem humble to fill them with conceit. If at ease, exhaust them. If united, separate them. Attack their weaknesses. Emerge to their surprise.

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Music is the answer to the mystery of life. The most profound of all the arts, It expresses the deepest thoughts of life.

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The art of propaganda lies in understanding the emotional ideas of the great masses and finding, through a psychologically correct form, the way to the attention and thence to the heart of the broad masses.

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At dances when I was a little kid, Art would be up there singing while I'd be dancing with some girl a foot taller than me.

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What is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's strategy.

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Laying out grounds may be considered a liberal art, in some sort like poetry and painting.

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Discuss unto me: art thou officer, Or art thou base, common, and popular?

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The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

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True perfection seems imperfect, yet it is perfectly itself. True fullness seems empty, yet it is fully present. True straightness seems crooked. True wisdom seems foolish. True art seems artless. The Master allows things to happen. She shapes events as they come. She steps out of the way and lets the Tao speak for itself.

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Truth in art is the unity of a thing with itself: the outward rendered expressive of the inward: the soul made incarnate: the body instinct with spirit. For this reason there is no truth comparable to sorrow.

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Art in the blood is liable to take the strangest forms.

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Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong.

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Take this sorrow to thy heart and make it part of thee, and it shall nourish thee till thou art strong again.

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The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all. Authority over him and his art is ridiculous.

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The activity of art is... as important as the activity of language itself, and as universal.

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