Sun Tzu Quotes, Art Quotes, Military Quotes

There are three ways in which a ruler can bring misfortune on his army: By commanding the army to advance or to retreat, being ignorant of the fact that it cannot obey. This is called hobbling the army. By attempting to govern an army in the same way as he administers a kingdom, being ignorant of the conditions which obtain in an army. This causes restlessness in the soldier's minds. By employing the officers of his army without discrimination, through ignorance of the military principle of adaptation to circumstances. This shakes the confidence of the soldiers.

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The picture must all come out of the artist's inside, awareness of forms and figures... It is more than memory. It is the image as it lives in the consciousness, alive like a vision, but unknown.

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The art of writing has for backbone some fierce attachment to an idea.

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When one treats people with benevolence, justice and righteousness, and reposes confidence in them, the army will be united in mind and all will be happy to serve their leaders.

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In the domain of art there is no light without heat.

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The dream reveals the reality which conception lags behind. That is the horror of life-the terror of art.

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Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.

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Though thou art far away, thy rays are on Earth; Though thou art in their faces, no one knows thy going.

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You eat, in dreams, the custard of the day.

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What wonders does not wine! It discloses secrets; ratifies and confirms our hopes; thrusts the coward forth to battle; eases the anxious mind of its burden; instructs in arts. Whom has not a cheerful glass made eloquent! Whom not quite free and easy from pinching poverty!

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Tags : Horace Quotes , Art Quotes , Wine Quotes

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

I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!

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Beware the artist who's an intellectual also. The artist who doesn't fit.

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Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Art Quotes , Artist Quotes

No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone. His significance, his appreciation is the appreciation of his relation to the dead poets and artists. You cannot value him alone; you must set him, for contrast and comparison, among the dead.

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

I myself will perhaps cry out with all the rest, looking at the mother embracing her child's tormentor: 'Just art thou, O Lord!' but I do not want to cry out with them. While there's still time, I hasten to defend myself against it, and therefore I absolutely renounce all higher harmony. It is not worth one little tear of even that one tormented child who beat her chest with her little fist and prayed to 'dear God' in a stinking outhouse with her unredeemed tears!

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Wonder, and its expression in poetry and the arts, are among the most important things which seem to distinguish men from other animals, and intelligent and sensitive people from morons.

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Art completes what nature cannot bring to finish. The artist gives us knowledge of nature's unrealized ends.

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Our little systems have their day; They have their day and cease to be… And thou, O Lord, art more than they.

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He learned the arts of riding, fencing, gunnery, And how to scale a fortress - or a nunnery.

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The prince must consider, as has been in part said before, how to avoid those things which will make him hated or contemptible; and as often as he shall have succeeded he will have fulfilled his part, and he need not fear any danger in other reproaches.

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