Immanuel Kant Quotes, Art Quotes, Division Of Labor Quotes

All trades, arts, and handiworks have gained by division of labor... Where the different kinds of work are not distinguished and divided, where everyone is a jack-of-all-trades, there manufactures remain still in the greatest barbarism.

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Seriously, if you want to get inside the head of a stand-up comic, you could do a lot worse than reading Steve Martin's Born Standing Up, all about how he developed his career and his creativity as a comedian. Lots of what he talks about is relevant to anyone in the creative arts - you find yourself, your voice, your technique and then maybe luck calls.

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And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, till the Devil whispered behind the leaves 'It's pretty, but is it Art?'

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I think art is a very important weapon to achieve human freedom

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Say, thou art mine; and ever, My love, as it begins, shall so persevere

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The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.

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Hence the saying: One may know how to conquer without being able to do it.

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The truth is revealed by removing things that stand in its light, an art not unlike sculpture, in which the artist creates, not by building, but by hacking away.

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If you cannot read all your books, at any rate handle them, and, as it were, fondle them. Let them fall open where they will. Make a voyage of discovery, taking soundings of uncharted seas.

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The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose.

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The Dance, of all the arts, is the one that most influences the soul. Dancing is divine in its nature and is the gift of God.

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Music is the art... which most completely realizes the artistic idea and is the condition to which all the other arts are constantly aspiring.

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The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.

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Art depends upon the inexactitude of sight.

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The end of the republic is to enervate and to weaken all other bodies so as to increase its own body.

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When the enemy is relaxed, make them toil. When full, starve them. When settled, make them move.

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Art is the escape from personality.

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All authority must be out of a man's self, turned . . . either upon an art, or upon a man.

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Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Art Quotes , Mean Quotes

You must never believe that the enemy does not know how to conduct his own affairs. Indeed, if you want to be deceived less and want to bear less danger, the more the enemy is weak or the less the enemy is cautious, so much more must you esteem him.

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