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Those who are skilled in combat do notbecome angered, those who are skilled at winning do not become afraid. Thus the wise win before they fight, while the ignorant fight to win.
Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.
Thou art as tyrannous, so as thou art, As those whose beauties proudly make them cruel; For well thou know'st to my dear doting heart Thou art the fairest and most precious jewel.
Thou art a Castilian King urinal!
History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; art has remembered the people, because they created.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
Rules and models destroy genius and art.
Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need.
Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
Life is a school of probability.
Art should never be sociological; it has got to be timeless. It's got to be your vision and how you can represent the world you see.
Your profession is not what brings home your weekly paycheck, your profession is what you're put here on earth to do, with such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling.
I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart.
If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.
An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.
Dance, like music, knows no geographical boundaries, no linguistic barriers and no racial divisions. All walls crumble where art is concerned. It is a great unifying and integrating force.
Thou fool! Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom; that idle crag thou sittest on is six thousand years of age.
One curator said he didn't want my work in his gallery because it was so simple even children understood it. I thought, what a wonderful tribute!
Suddenly I've got an overwhelming desire to surround myself with the aura of classical and Romantic art.
Work is what you do for others, liebchen. Art is what you do for yourself.
Through courtesy you will take a humble attitude toward your opponent in training & be grateful to him.
Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.
Art hath an enemy called ignorance.
Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.
Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.
I see dance being used as communication between body and soul, to express what it too deep to find for words.
Reason is powerless in the expression of Love.
The web of life is a beautiful and meaningless dance. The web of life is a process with a moving goal. The web of life is a perfectly finished work of art right where I am sitting now.
In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows that every day is Doomsday.
Every artist was first an amateur.
All well bred men should have mastered the art of singing and dancing.
My old school in Liverpool is now a performing-arts school, and I kind of teach there - I use the word lightly - but I go there and talk to students.
The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.
Art is either a plagiarist or a revolutionist.
Art is by nature optimistic. Art is optimistic because it is alive.
The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.
Art is my God, Music is my religion.
The secret of life is in art.
Gather knowledge... Visit galleries, museums, art and craft fairs... Read books and magazines. Take workshops. Use your senses. Experience stimulates your memory and imagination.
Tell me what company thou keepest and I'll tell thee what thou art.
Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.
Dreams are faithful interpreters of our inclinations; but there is art required to sort and understand them.
You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.
The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word.
Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century.
The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.
It's very true that an artist who networks well will have better opportunities than one who doesn't network well. But great networking skills without great art won't change art history.
