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Whoever is first in the field and awaits the coming of the enemy, will be fresh for the fight; whoever is second in the field and has to hasten to battle will arrive exhausted.

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Art cannot single-handedly create enthusiasm... it merely contributes to enthusiasm and guides us to be more conscious of feelings that we might previously have experienced only tentatively or hurriedly.

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I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.

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Still, a prince should make himself feared in such a way that if he does not gain love, he at any rate avoids hatred; for fear and the absence of hatred may well go together, and will be always attained by one who abstains from interfering with the property of his citizens and subjects or with their women.

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Man's mind cannot grasp the causes of events in their completeness, but the desire to find the causes is implanted in man's soul.

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There is simply no comparison between a man who is armed and one who is not. It is simply unreasonable to expect that an armed man should obey one who is unarmed, or that an unarmed man should remain safe and secure when his servants are armed.

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So vast is art, so narrow human wit.

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The business of art lies just in this, -- to make that understood and felt which, in the form of an argument, might be incomprehensible and inaccessible.

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If those who are sent to draw water begin by drinking themselves, the army is suffering from thirst.

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In China, we don't have any contemporary art museums. Until a few years ago, we didn't even have a gallery.

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Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.

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The general history of art and literature shows that the highest achievements of the human mind are, as a rule, not favourably received at first.

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Men of genius are meteors destined to burn themselves out in lighting up their age.

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If nothing were left of an extinct race but a single button, I would be able to infer, form the shape of that button, how these people dressed, built their houses, how they lived, what was their religion, their art, their mentality.

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Art is standing with one hand extended into the universe and one hand extended into the world, and letting ourselves be a conduit for passing energy.

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Tags : Albert Einstein Quotes , Art Quotes , Hands Quotes

What art can paint or gild any object in after life with the glow which nature gives to the first baubles of childhood? St. Peter's cannot have the magical power over us that the red and gold covers of our first picture-book possessed.

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

To be honest I had learnt martial arts for a girl. So I started learning the art to impress her, but eventually I started loving martial art more than the girl. So later it became a habit it became fun.

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Do proper homage to thine idol's eyes; But no too humbly, or she will despise Thee and thy suit, though told in moving tropes: Disguise even tenderness if thou art wise.

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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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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Art Quotes , Useless Things Quotes

They can't yank a novelist like they can a pitcher. A novelist has to go the full nine, even if it kills him.

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