Leo Tolstoy Quotes, Art Quotes, Great Work Quotes

Great works of art are only great because they are accessible and comprehensible to everyone.

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The art of leadership . . . consists in consolidating the attention of the people against a single adversary and taking care that nothing will split up that attention. . . . The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belong to one category.

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Know that the secret of the arts is to correct nature.

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Attack where he is unprepared; sally forth when he does not expect you.

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PHYSIOGNOMY, n. The art of determining the character of another by the resemblances and differences between his face and our own, which is the standard of excellence.

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When Sir Joshua Reynolds died All Nature was degraded

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Now let it work. Mischief, thou art afoot. Take thou what course thou wilt.

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All works of art should begin... at the end.

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A good half of the art of living is resilience.

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Wild Spirit, which art moving everywhere; Destroyer and preserver; hear, oh, hear!

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Art is the proper task of life.

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Once out of nature I shall never take My bodily form from any natural thing, But such a form as Grecian goldsmiths make

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All art is in the last analysis an endeavor to condense as out of the flying vapor of the world an image of human perfection, and for its own and not for the art's sake.

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Art is the expression of the profoundest thoughts in the simplest way.

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Drawing need not be the bones of art, but skill must always be the skeleton of accomplishment.

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Should one ask: 'how do I cope with a well-ordered enemy host about to attack me?' I reply: seize something he cherishes and he will conform to your desires.

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Theater, art, literature, cinema, press, posters, and window displays must be cleansed of all manifestations of our rotting world and placed in the service of a moral, political, and cultural idea.

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Violence must be inflicted once for all; people will then forget what it tastes like and so be less resentful. Benefits must be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better.

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Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.

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A prince, therefore, must not mind incurring the charge of cruelty for the purpose of keeping his subjects united and confident; for, with a very few examples, he will be more merciful than those who, from excess of tenderness, allow disorders to arise, from whence spring murders and rapine; for these as a rule injure the whole community, while the executions carried out by the prince injure only one individual. And of all princes, it is impossible for a new prince to escape the name of cruel, new states being always full of dangers.

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