"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."
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"Generally in war the best policy is to take a state intact; to ruin it is inferior to this."
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"If, however, you are indulgent, but unable to make your authority felt; kind-hearted, but unable to enforce your commands; and incapable, moreover, of quelling disorder: then your soldiers must be likened to spoilt children; they are useless for any practical purpose."
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"Spies are a most important element in water, because on them depends an army's ability to move."
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"Music is at once the most wonderful, the most alive of all the arts- it is the most abstract, the most perfect, the most pure- and the most sensual. I listen with my body and it is my body that aches in response to the passion and pathos embodied in this music."
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"Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art."
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"Photography - the supreme form of travel, of tourism - is the principal modern means for enlarging the world. As a branch of art, photography's enterprise of world enlargement tends to specialize in the subjects felt to be challenging, transgressive. A photograph may be telling us: this too exists. And that. And that. (And it is all 'human.') But what are we to do with this knowledge - if indeed it is knowledge, about, say, the self, about abnormality, about ostracized or clandestine worlds?"
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"The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means."
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"Is it the obligation of great art to be continually interesting? I think not."
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"The "happening" operates by creating an asymmetrical network of surprises, without climax or consummation, this is the alogism of dreams rather than the logic of most art."
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"Art is a form of consciousness."
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"The shaping of taste is essentially the science of merchandising, whether of detergents or cars or books or objects of fine and decorative art."
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"paraphrasing.."Science is the language of the intellect of society. Art is language of the entire human personality."
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"Works of art are viewed by people. They are heard by people. They are felt by people. They are not just the fodder of a close-knit group of initiates. They are the soul food of all people."
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"I had just taken to reading. I had just discovered the art of leaving my body to sit impassive in a crumpled up attitude in a chair or sofa, while I wandered over the hills and far away in novel company and new scenes... My world began to expand very rapidly,... the reading habit had got me securely."
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"All the great captains have performed vast achievements by conforming with the rules of art--by adjusting efforts to obstacles."
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"Men of genius are meteors destined to burn themselves out in lighting up their age."
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"Nowadays New-York is not the exciting place it used to be. It still has great energy; I still put my finger in the socket. But it doesn't feel alive, cracking with that synergy between the art world and music world and fashion world that was happening in the 80s. A lot of people died."
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"I consider writing as a fine art. We kill it by imposing the alphabet on little children and making it the beginning of learning."
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"Through Khadi we teach the people the art of civil obedience to an institution which they have built up for themselves."
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