Honore De Balzac Quotes, Art Quotes, Perfection Quotes

The best painters, as they progress in reputation and towards perfection, are found to dispense more and more with the technique of the art, for simpler methods. Simplicity never fails to charm.

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Yet again, the more you strive for some kind of perfection or mastery—in morals, in art or in spirituality—the more you see that you are playing a rarified and lofty form of the old ego-game, and that your attainment of any height is apparent to yourself and to others only by contrast with someone else's depth or failure.

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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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Thou wouldst be loved? - then let thy heart From its present pathway part not! Being everything which now thou art, Be nothing which thou art not. So with the world thy gentle ways, Thy grace, thy more than beauty, Shall be an endless theme of praise, And love - a simple duty.

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Cortissoz was art critic of the New York Herald Tribune.

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The greatest victory is that which requires no battle.

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Comfort is the only thing our civilization can give us.

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Since the handling of arms is a beautiful spectacle, it is delightful to young men.

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Thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine.

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It is expedient that there should be gods, and, since it is expedient, let us believe that gods exist.

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Ground which can be abandoned but is hard to re-occupy is called entangling.

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In order to correctly define art, it is necessary, first of all, to cease to consider it as a means to pleasure and consider it as one of the conditions of human life. ...Reflecting on it in this way, we cannot fail to observe that art is one of the means of effective communication between people.

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There are three arts which are concerned with all things: one which uses, another which makes, and a third which imitates them.

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If you would learn to write, it is in the street you must learn it. Both for the vehicle and for the aims of fine arts, you must frequent the public square. The people, and not the college, is the writer's home. A scholar is a candle which the love and desire of all men will light.

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When a general, unable to estimate the enemy's strength, allows an inferior force to engage a larger one, or hurls a weak detachment against a powerful one, and neglects to place picked soldiers in the front rank, the result must be rout.

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I don't like the word "experiment" in the context of art in general. It implies something immature, unfinished, something entertaining for a moment before it becomes irrelevant.

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Note too that a faithful study of the liberal arts humanizes character and permits it not to be cruel.

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Where art thou, Muse, that thou forget'st so long / To speak of that which gives thee all thy might?

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A clever general... avoids an army when its spirit is keen, but attacks it when it is sluggish and inclined to return. This is the art of studying moods. Disciplined and calm, he awaits the appearance of disorder and hubbub among the enemy. This is the art of retaining self-possession.

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WAR, n. A by-product of the arts of peace. The most menacing political condition is a period of international amity.

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