"Of old the expert in battle would first make himself invincible and then wait for his enemy to expose his vulnerability."
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"O divine art of subtlety and secrecy! Through you we learn to be invisible, through you inaudible and hence we can hold the enemy's fate in our hands."
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"I see guys with, like, eyebrow art, and I wanna tell them, 'You don't have to go too crazy on your brows. Take it easy, man!"
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"There is no need to run outside for better seeing... Rather abide at the center of your being; For the more you leave it the less you learn. Search your heart and see... The way to do is to be."
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"Bop began with Jazz but one afternoon somewhere on a sidewalk maybe 1939, 1940, Dizzy Gillespie or Charlie Parker or Thelonious Monk was walking past a men's clothing store on 42nd Street or South Main in L.A. and from a loudspeaker they suddenly heard a wild impossible mistake in jazz that could only have been heard inside their own imaginary head, and that is a new art. Bop."
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"Art is purposiveness without purpose."
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"All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril."
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"The art of effective listening is essential to clear communication, and clear communication is necessary to management success."
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"Real art, like the wife of an affectionate husband, needs no ornaments. But counterfeit art, like a prostitute, must always be decked out. The cause of production of real art is the artist's inner need to express a feeling that has accumulated...The cause of counterfeit art, as of prostitution, is gain. The consequence of true art is the introduction of a new feeling into the intercourse of life... The consequences of counterfeit art are the perversion of man, pleasure which never satisfies, and the weakening of man's spiritual strength."
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"The final, unfinished fugue from The Art of Fugue is the greatest piece of music ever composed."
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"Broad paths are open to every endeavour, and a sympathetic recognition is assured to every one who consecrates his art to the divine services of a conviction of a consciousness."
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"A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light."
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"How full of the creative genius is the air in which these [snowflakes] are generated! I should hardly admire them more if real stars fell and lodged on my coat. Nature is full of genius. Full of the divinity. So that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand."
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"As an artist one has no home in Europe except in Paris."
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"Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie."
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"The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute."
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"Whether it is a big ship or small ship, the same size hole placed correctly in the hull can sink it."
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"Art is an intersection of many human needs."
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"It is high time that we realized that it is pointless to praise the light and preach it if nobody can see it. It is much more needful to preach the art of seeing."
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"Words are the physicians of a mind diseased."
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