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I take as metaphysical poetry that in which what is ordinarily apprehensible only by thought is brought within the grasp of feeling, or that in which what is ordinarily only felt is transformed into thought without ceasing to be feeling.

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An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them. We live in an age when men treat art as if it were meant to be a form of autobiography. We have lost the abstract sense of beauty.

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It is of the highest importance in the art of detection to be able to recognise out of a number of facts which are incidental and which are vital.

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Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts.

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The forces of adversaries are more diminished by the loss of those who flee than of those who are killed.

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Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.

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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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The art of war is to gain time when your strength is inferior.

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These are the six ways of courting defeat - neglect to estimate the enemy's strength; want of authority; defective training; unjustifiable anger; nonobservance of discipline; failure to use picked men.

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If you only notice human proceedings, you may observe that all who attain great power and riches, make use of either force or fraud; and what they have acquired either by deceit or violence, in order to conceal the disgraceful methods of attainment, they endeavor to sanctify with the false title of honest gains.

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If there is a gun hanging on the wall in the first act, it must fire in the last.

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There is an art of seeing things as they are: without naming, without being caught in a network of words, without thinking interfering with perception.

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Bestow rewards without regard to rule, issue orders without regard to previous arrangements; and you will be able to handle a whole army as though you had to do with but a single man.

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True art takes note not merely of form but also of what lies behind.

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In painting, the most brilliant colors, spread at random and without design, will give far less pleasure than the simplest outline of a figure.

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Perpetual modernism is the measure of merit in every work of art.

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The Old and New Testaments are the Great Code of Art.

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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.

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Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.

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Because of the routines we follow, we often forget that life is an ongoing adventure. . . Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art: to bring all our energies to each encounter, to remain flexible enough to notice and admit when what we expected to happen did not happen. We need to remember that we are created creative and can invent new scenarios as frequently as they are needed.

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