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Most martial arts have to do with the mind, ultimately. The ability to be unafraid, to walk away from a fight without fear - that is control.
Now a soldier's spirit is keenest in the morning; by noonday it has begun to flag; and in the evening, his mind is only on returning to camp.
Logic is the art of thinking well: the mind, like the body, requires to be trained before it can use its powers in the most advantageous way.
My child, if you want to have a beautiful and happy life... 2 things you need... learn the art of love and practice it with your beloved one.
We can't be certain who the villains are cuz everyone's so pretty, but the after party's sure to be the wing-ding as it moves into your city.
If an Artist love his Art for its own sake, he will delight in excellence wherever he meets it, as well in the work of another as in his own.
In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.
Im saving up to buy art. Nothing famous, but every time Im in a new city I wander into galleries and dream about buying great pieces one day.
I really believe in constantly trying to find and support new ways of watching independent art, because the old ways are not working as well.
Art is a language. It's not a skill. It's not a stunt. It's not something that you just learn to do and put it down. It comes from the heart.
Reality is an aspect of property. It must be seized. And investigative journalism is the noble art of seizing reality back from the powerful.
The gyms you go to are crowded with guys trying to look like men, as if being a man means looking the way a sculptor or an art director says.
Every accomplishment, every refined talent, every useful attainment in mathematics, music, and in all sciences, and art belong to the Saints.
Art is not vague production, transitory and isolated, but a power which must be directed to the improvement and refinement of the human soul.
Nobody is fully alive who cannot apply to art as much discrimination and appreciation as he applies to the work by which he earns his living.
It's good for art to make us think, to give us a shared experience that creates a dialogue, makes us talk to each other, including strangers.
First I went to C.W. Post and I was a psychology and theater major and then I transferred to NYU's Tisch School of the Arts as a drama major.
She doesn't give you time for questions as she locks up your arms in hers. And you follow till your sense of direction completely disappears.
Say not that thou hast royal blood in thy veins; say not that thou art born of God if thou canst not prove thy pedigree by daring to be holy!
Mr Newton, a fellow of our College, and very young, being but the second year master of arts; but of an extraordinary genius and proficiency.
I try to update my arsenal constantly. Learning different martial arts since childhood. To understand what's out there. To really be in tune.
Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art.
An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but the organ of pure contemplation, our imagination.
Should the enemy forestall you in occupying a pass, do not go after him if the pass is fully garrisoned, but only if it is weakly garrisoned.
I hate videos. I'm meticulous on everything from cover art, fonts, productions, mixing. But when it comes to videos, I just feel so defeated.
If the men in the room would only think how they would feel graduating with a 'spinster of arts' degree they would see how important this is.
I would much prefer their minds to be engaged in the deadly arts than clouded with dreams of marriage and fortune, as your own so clearly is!
I think art, if it's meaningful at all, is a conversation with other artists. You say something, they say something, you move back and forth.
It is not necessary for the public to know whether I am joking or whether I am serious, just as it is not necessary for me to know it myself.
I don't understand it. Jack will spend any amount of money to buy votes but he balks at investing a thousand dollars in a beautiful painting.
The painter is, as to the execution of his work, a mechanic; but as to his conception and spirit and design he is hardly below even the poet.
The clerisy are those who seek, and find, delight and enlargement of life in books. The clerisy are those for whom reading is a personal art.
Some were beggars, some were kings, and some were masters of the arts. But in their shame they're all the same, these men with broken hearts.
A picture is a work of art, not because it is 'modern,' nor because it is 'ancient,' but because it is a sincere expression of human feeling.
Art is very tricky because it's what you do for yourself. It's much harder for me to make those works than the monuments or the architecture.
We are...a Divine work of art, something that God is making...something with which He will not be satisfied until it has a certain character.
We should comfort ourselves with the masterpieces of art as with exalted personages-stand quietly before them and wait till they speak to us.
Where there is true art and genuine virtuosity the artist can paint an incomparable masterpiece without leaving even a trace of his identity.
It is quite beneath the dignity of a person holding a Bachelor of Arts degree to engage in such a vulgar occupation as the writing of novels.
There are some things which cannot be learned, though they can be studied. Among them are the laws of art—and the lawlessness of it, as well.
If art is the poetic interpretation of nature, photography is the exact translation; it is exactitude in art or the complement of art. (1854)
I am playing the music I love and I really play it from my heart, and whatever the out form is - it doesn't matter whether it's art or music.
By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.
The power of art is that it can connect us to one another, and to larger truths about what it means to be alive and what it means to be human.
Chaos is everywhere - and artists, to fashion art and live truthfully, have no choice but to invite this unwanted guest right into the studio.
I'm starting to get a following on Twitter. That's a really awesome power to have. It gives me the opportunity to make any kind of art I want.
More than any other beauty (though it is true of all beauty except in art) passion seems to me to have the seeds of its own destruction in it.
I hated art as a kid. I didn't even like art class. I didn't like to draw. I would make my dad do all the drawings because I hated it so much.
Have the courage to analyze great emotions to create characters who shall be lofty and true. The whole art of the analytical novel lies there.
Humility is becoming a lost art, but it's not difficult to practice. It means that you realize that others have been involved in your success.