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  • Art Quotes   1985
  • Thus the highest form of generalship is to balk the enemy's plans, the next best is to prevent the junction of the enemy's forces, the next in order is to attack the enemy's army in the field, and the worst policy of all is to besiege walled cities.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Sun Tzu Quotes , Art Quotes , Military Quotes
  • The power of both myth and art is this magical ability to open doors, to make connections - not only between us and the natural world, but between us and the rest of humanity. Myths show us what we have in common with every other human being, no matter what culture we come from, no matter what century we live in. . .and at the same time, mythic stories and art celebrate our essential differences.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Alan Lee Quotes , Art Quotes , Differences Quotes
  • No more than a famous master can be replaced and another take over the completion of the half-finished painting he has left behind can the great poet and thinker, the great statesman and the great soldier, be replaced. For their activity lies always in the province of art. It is not mechanically trained but inborn by God's grace.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Adolf Hitler Quotes , Art Quotes , Lying Quotes
  • Whatever events in progress shall disgust men with cities, and infuse into them the passion for country life, and country pleasures, will render a service to the whole face of this continent, and will further the most poetic of all the occupations of real life, the bringing out by art the native but hidden graces of the landscape.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Country Quotes , Art Quotes
  • In our age the common religious perception of men is the consciousness of the brotherhood of man - we know that the well-being of man lies in the union with his fellow men. True science should indicate the various methods of applying this consciousness to life. Art should transform this perception into feeling.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Religious Quotes , Art Quotes
  • I remember my emotions the day we watched Nelson Mandela walk out of prison Writing & literature in South Africa during the anti-apartheid years, became a 'cultural weapon.' You had to use it to fight apartheid & some of us resisted that in the end, you recognize that you are facing a government that has no scruples about using culture & art to oppress you.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Achmat Dangor Quotes , Art Quotes , Writing Quotes
  • Yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness To catch the nearest way: thou wouldst be great; Art not without ambition, but without The illness should attend it: what thou wouldst highly, That wouldst thou holily; wouldst not play false, And yet wouldst wrongly win.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Art Quotes , Nature Quotes
  • If what is seen and experienced is portrayed in the language of logic, then it is science. If it is communicated through forms whose connections are not accessible to the conscious mind but are recognized intuitively, then it is art.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Albert Einstein Quotes , Art Quotes , Mind Quotes