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Edmund Burke Philosopher, Politician
Art

"In the weakness of one kind of authority, and in the fluctuation of all, the officers of an army will remain for some time mutinous and full of faction, until some popular general, who understands the art of conciliating the soldiery, and who possesses the true spirit of command, shall draw the eyes of all men upon himself. Armies will obey him on his personal account. There is no other way of securing military obedience in this state of things."

Art Eye Military
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Art

"I see no reason why the artistic world can't absolutely merge with Madison Avenue. Pop art is a move in that direction. Why can't we have advertisements with beautiful words and beautiful images?"

Art Moving Beautiful
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Art

"I wasn't exposed to art as I was growing up, and can't recall the first time I saw a work of art. However, I remember very clearly a vision I had of a little green reindeer when I was a child, and visions emanate from the same mythical area where painting resides. Whatever the reason, I immediately felt comfortable working with visual materials."

Children Art Growing Up
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Willie Nelson Musician, Actor
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"A lot of country music is sad. I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times. It applies to music. Three chords and the truth - that’s what a country song is. There is a lot of heartache in the world."

Art Country Song
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T. S. Eliot Poet, Playwright
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"Art serves us best precisely at that point where it can shift our sense of what is possible, when we know more than we knew before, when we feel we have - by some manner of a leap - encountered the truth. That, by the logic of art, is always worth the pain."

Art Pain Logic
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Theodore Martin Artist, Writer
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"Work is the true elixir of life. The busiest man is the happiest man. Excellence in any art or profession is attained only by hard and persistent work. Never believe that you are perfect. When a man imagines, even after years of striving, that he has attained perfection, his decline begins."

Believe Art Work
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Thomas Aquinas Philosopher, Theologian
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"The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of the work he produces."

Art Lying Work
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Thomas Huxley Biologist, Anthropologist
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"The science, the art, the jurisprudence, the chief political and social theories, of the modern world have grown out of Greece and Rome-not by favour of, but in the teeth of, the fundamental teachings of early Christianity, to which science, art, and any serious occupation with the things of this world were alike despicable."

Art Teaching Rome
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Tom Robbins Novelist, Essayist
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"If you take any activity, any art, any discipline, any skill-take it and push it as far as it will go, push it beyond where it has ever been before, push it to the wildest edges of edges, then you force it into the realm of magic."

Art Passion Peace
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Rick Castro Photographer
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"Fetish is the exploration of sex as art, and the refinement of one’s personal desires. Anything can be fetishised...There’ll be new fetishes forever. I feel that the 21st century is all about fetish."

Art Sex Forever
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Sri Aurobindo Philosopher, Poet, Politician
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"The highest aim of the aesthetic being is to find the Divine through beauty; the highest Art is that which by an inspired use of significant and interpretative form unseals the door of the spirit."

Art Use Doors
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Stephen King Author
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"There's nothing as human as hunger. There's no creation without talent, I give you that, but talent is cheap. Talent goes begging. Hunger is the piston of art."

Art Giving Talent
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Sun Tzu Military Strategist
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"The clever combatant imposes his will on the enemy, but does not allow the enemy's will to be imposed on him."

Art Military Clever
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Sun Tzu Military Strategist
Art

"When the enemy is relaxed, make them toil. When full, starve them. When settled, make them move."

Art War Moving
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Sun Tzu Military Strategist
Art

"The art of giving orders is not to try to rectify the minor blunders and not be swayed by petty doubts."

Art War Order
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