Virginia Woolf Quotes, Art Quotes, Believe Quotes

What is a woman? I assure you, I do not know ... I do not believe that anybody can know until she has expressed herself in all the arts and professions open to human skill.

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The art of writing has for backbone some fierce attachment to an idea.

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A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations is really an uncreative mind.

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Virtue runs before the muse, and defies her skill; she is rapt and doth refuse to wait a painter's will.

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

A prince being thus obliged to know well how to act as a beast must imitate the fox and the lion, for the lion cannot protect himself from snares, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves.

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The art of land warfare is an art of genius, of inspiration. On the sea nothing is genius or inspiration; everything is positive or empiric.

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Is there not a certain satisfaction in the fact that natural limits are set to the life of the individual, so that at the conclusion it may appear as a work of art?

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I can still stand on life's narrowest footing: but who would I be were I to show you this art. Would you like to see a ropedancer?

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When he utilizes combined energy, his fighting men become, as it were, like rolling logs or stones... The energy developed by good fighting men is as the momentum of a round stone rolled down a mountain thousands of feet in height.

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Pale death knocks with impartial foot at poor men's hovels and king's palaces.

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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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Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.

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In fact, the whole of Japan is a pure invention. There is no such country, there are no such people.... The Japanese people are ... simply a mode of style, an exquisite fancy of art.

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The real Brahms is nothing more than a sentimental voluptuary

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It is the rule in war, if ten times the enemy's strength, surround them; if five times, attack them; if double, be able to divide them; if equal, engage them; if fewer, defend against them; if weaker, be able to avoid them.

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To be an artist means never to avert one's eyes.

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Generally in war the best policy is to take a state intact; to ruin it is inferior to this.

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Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use short and positive speech.

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All art that is not mere storytelling, or mere portraiture, is symbolic, and has the purpose of those symbolic talismans which medieval magicians made with complex colours and forms, and bade their patients ponder over daily, and guard with holy secrecy; for it entangles, in complex colours and forms, a part of the Divine Essence.

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Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Art Quotes , Essence Quotes

Image of rugged cliffs And so thy thoughts, when thou art gone, Love itself shall slumber on.

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