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The poet is the supreme artist, for he is the master of colour and of form, and the real musician besides, and is lord over all life and all arts.

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When you surround an army, leave an outlet free. Do not press a desperate foe too hard.

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The clever combatant imposes his will on the enemy, but does not allow the enemy's will to be imposed on him.

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Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night.

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Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.

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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.

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The real art of governing consists, so far as possible, in doing nothing.

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The Romans never allowed a trouble spot to remain simply to avoid going to war over it, because they knew that wars don't just go away, they are only postponed to someone else's advantage. Therefore, they made war with Philip and Antiochus in Greece, in order not to have to fight them in Italy... They never went by that saying which you constantly hear from the wiseacres of our day, that time heals all things. They trusted rather their own character and prudence- knowing perfectly well that time contains the seeds of all things, good as well as bad.

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A museum is not a first-hand contact: it is an illustrated lecture. And what one wants is the actual vital touch.

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As for borrowing Mr. Whistler's ideas about art, the only thoroughly original ideas I have heard him express have had reference to his own superiority as a painter over painters greater than himself.

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Art is man added to Nature.

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Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of, herself. She is not to be judged by any external standard of resemblance.

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Art is the proper task of life.

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We may distinguish six kinds of terrain, to wit: (1) Accessible ground; (2) entangling ground; (3) temporising ground; (4) narrow passes; (5) precipitous heights; (6) positions at a great distance from the enemy.

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Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed. Having once experienced the mystery, plenitude, contradiction, and composure of a work of art, we afterward have a built-in resistance to the slogans and propaganda of oversimplification that have often contributed to the destruction of human life. Poetry is a verbal means to a nonverbal source. It is a motion to no-motion, to the still point of contemplation and deep realization.

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For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.

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All minds quote. Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a twist of these two strands. By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. We quote not only books and proverbs, but arts, sciences, religion, customs, and laws; nay, we quote temples and houses, tables and chairs, by imitation.

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God made thee good as thou art beautiful.

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O, had I but followed the arts!

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Bestow rewards without regard to rule, issue orders without regard to previous arrangements; and you will be able to handle a whole army as though you had to do with but a single man.

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