Sun Tzu Quotes, Art Quotes, Military Quotes

The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy. To secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself. Thus the good fighter is able to secure himself against defeat, but cannot make certain of defeating the enemy.

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No man ever reached to excellence in any one art or profession without having passed through the slow and painful process of study and preparation.

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It makes him hated above all things, as I have said, to be rapacious, and to be a violator of the property and women of his subjects, from both of which he must abstain.

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Past art is subject to change.

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The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

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To evoke in oneself a feeling one has once experienced, and having evoked it in oneself, then by means of movements, lines, colors, sounds, or forms expressed through words, so to convey this so that others may experience the same feeling - this is the activity of art.

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When orders are consistently trustworthy and observed, the relationship of a commander with his troops is satisfactory.

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History, with all her volumes vast, Hath but one page.

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The general history of art and literature shows that the highest achievements of the human mind are, as a rule, not favourably received at first.

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Here the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to be to restraint and punishment, and in what things persuasion only is to work.

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But of works of art little can be said.

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MAGIC, n. An art of converting superstition into coin. There are other arts serving the same high purpose, but the discreet lexicographer does not name them.

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Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Art Quotes , Names Quotes

Love, Hope, and Joy, fair pleasure's smiling train, Hate, Fear, and Grief, the family of pain, These mix'd with art, and to due bounds confin'd Make and maintain the balance of the mind.

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Tags : Alexander Pope Quotes , Art Quotes , Pain Quotes

Or art thou but / A dagger of the mind, a false creation, / Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?

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We should comfort ourselves with the masterpieces of art as with exalted personages-stand quietly before them and wait till they speak to us.

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Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly.

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Not everything you do is going to be a masterpiece, but you get art there and you try and sometimes it really happens. The other times you’re just stretching your soul.

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Art, in the artist, is proportion, or, a habitual respect to the whole by an eye loving beauty in details. And the wonder and charm of it is the sanity in insanity which it denotes.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Respect Quotes , Art Quotes

Scion of chiefs and monarchs, where art thou? Fond hope of many nations, art thou dead? Could not the grave forget thee, and lay low Some less majestic, less beloved head?

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Is there no room for art in the spoken language? What is the use of creating an unnatural language to the exclusion of the natural one?

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