Victor Hugo Quotes, Art Quotes, Nature Quotes

God manifests himself to us in the first degree through the life of the universe, and in the second degree through the thought of man. The second manifestation is not less holy than the first. The first is named Nature, the second is named Art.

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By altering his arrangements and changing his plans, the skillful general keeps the enemy without definite knowledge. By shifting his camp and taking circuitous routes, he prevents the enemy from anticipating his purpose. At the critical moment, the leader of an army acts like one who has climbed up a height and then kicks away the ladder behind him.

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Art lies in concealing art.

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That's where the songs come from: that's what I'd most want people to understand. What sounds good or looks good, that's nothing. The only worthwhile thing in art is seeing someone else's heart.

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I don't think it's worth discussing new directions in the context of Chinese art - there were no old directions, either. Chinese art has never had any clear orientation.

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In their different ways, art and philosophy help us, in Schopenhauer's words, to turn pain into knowledge.

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We all draw a little and compose a little, and none of us have any idea of time or money.

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I suggest that the great art belongs to all people, all the time--that indeed it is made for the people, by the people, to the people.

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Art is a means of union among men, joining them together in the same feeling.

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Something therefore always remains and sticks from the most imprudent of lies, a fact which all bodies and individuals concerned in the art of lying in this world know only too well, and therefore they stop at nothing to achieve this end.

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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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The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails.

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O divine art of subtlety and secrecy!

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The new school of art and thought does indeed wear an air of audacity, and breaks out everywhere into blasphemies, as if it required any courage to say a blasphemy. There is only one thing that it requires real courage to say, and that is a truism.

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Eternity is not an everlasting flux of time, but time is as a short parenthesis in a long period.

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The most difficult art is not in the choice of men, but in giving to the men chosen the highest service of which they are capable.

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The art of life is loving and listening to one another.

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It's not art for art's sake, it's art for my sake.

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The modern naturalist must realize that in some of its branches his profession, while more than ever a science, has also become an art.

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