Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes, Art Quotes, War Quotes

Knowing how to fight made men more bold, because no one fears doing what it seems to him he has learned to do. Therefore, the ancients wanted their citizens to be trained in every warlike action.

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There are men whose manners have the same essential splendor as the simple and awful sculpture on the friezes of the Parthenon, and the remains of the earliest Greek art.

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Art depends upon the inexactitude of sight.

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I think that the job of art and culture is to jump on that time and realize that it's there and to push it just a little bit faster.

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They can't yank a novelist like they can a pitcher. A novelist has to go the full nine, even if it kills him.

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As a total activity - I practice curating, art, architecture, writing, and publishing all together. I still act as a living creature.

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Art never improves, but... the material of art is never quite the same.

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Past art is subject to change.

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The truth comes as conqueror only because we have lost the art of receiving it as guest.

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Art must discover and reveal the beauty which prejudice and caricature have overlaid.

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To read a novel is a difficult and complex art.

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The greatest victory is that which requires no battle.

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There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle. The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt is awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.

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No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone.

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The Byzantines hammered away at their hard and orthodox symbols, because they could not be in a mood to believe that men could take a hint. The moderns drag out into lengths and reels of extravagance their new orthodoxy of being unorthodox, because they also cannot give a hint -- or take a hint. Yet all perfect and well-poised art is really a hint.

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We know that all the arts are brothers, that each of them illuminates another, and that a universal light results.

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The productions of all arts are kinds of poetry and their craftsmen are all poets.

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The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim. The critic is he who can translate into another manner or a new material his impression of beautiful things.

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Wonder, and its expression in poetry and the arts, are among the most important things which seem to distinguish men from other animals, and intelligent and sensitive people from morons.

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If what is seen and experienced is portrayed in the language of logic, then it is science. If it is communicated through forms whose connections are not accessible to the conscious mind but are recognized intuitively, then it is art.

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