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  • The art of war teaches us to rely not on the likelihood of the enemy's not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him; not on the chance of his not attacking, but rather on the fact that we have made our position unassailable.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Sun Tzu Quotes , Art Quotes , Military Quotes
  • Art serves us best precisely at that point where it can shift our sense of what is possible, when we know more than we knew before, when we feel we have - by some manner of a leap - encountered the truth. That, by the logic of art, is always worth the pain.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Art Quotes , Pain Quotes
  • If we trace out what we behold and experience through the language of logic, we are doing science; if we show it in forms whose interrelashionships are not accessible to our conscious thought but we are intuitively recognized as meaningful, we are doing art.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Albert Einstein Quotes , Meaningful Quotes , Art Quotes
  • The city is always recruited from the country. The men in cities who are the centres of energy, the driving-wheels of trade, politics or practical arts, and the women of beauty and genius, are the children or grandchildren of farmers, and are spending the energies which their fathers' hardy, silent life accumulated in frosty furrows in poverty, necessity and darkness.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Country Quotes , Art Quotes
  • The secret of the enjoyment of pleasure is to know when to stop. Man doesn't learn this secret easily, but to shun pleasure altogether is cowardly avoidance of a difficult job. For we have to learn the art of enjoying things BECAUSE they are impermanent.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Art Quotes , Jobs Quotes
  • In the same manner, having been reduced by disorder, and sunk to their utmost state of depression, unable to descend lower, they, of necessity, reascend; and thus from good they gradually decline to evil, and from evil again return to good. The reason is, that valor produces peace; peace, repose; repose, disorder; disorder, ruin; so from disorder order springs; from order virtue, and from this, glory and good fortune.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes , Art Quotes , Spring Quotes
  • People have pointed out evidences of personal feeling in my notices as if they were accusing me of a misdemeanor, not knowing that criticism written without personal feeling is not worth reading. It is the capacity for making good or bad art a personal matter that makes a man a critic.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Art Quotes , Reading Quotes