"To my mind the old masters are not art; their value is in their scarcity."
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"I know for sure that God can do whatever He wants to do. He's called me to be faithful to do good art, to lift up Jesus and that's what I'm going to do and I'll let the Lord take care of the rest."
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"A work of art is one of mystery, the one extreme magic; everything else is either arithmetic or biology."
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"If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail."
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"The art of moving forward lies in understanding what to leave behind."
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"The highest art form of all is a human being in control of himself and his airplane in flight, urging the spirit of a machine to match his own."
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"A lot of it's experimental, spontaneous. It's about knocking about in the studio and bumping into things."
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"art is exposure. And until you've developed a degree of maturity to handle that knowledge, you are revealing what other people keep hidden."
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"Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction."
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"You're always believing ahead of your evidence. What was the evidence I could write a poem? I just believed it. The most creative thing in us is to believe in a thing."
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"It is the common defect of modern art study. Too many students do not know why they draw."
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"It is harder to see than it is to express. The whole value of art rests in the artist's ability to see well into what is before him."
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"Success financially is a measure of creative success, it is the same in all arts."
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"If it is to your advantage, make a forward move; if not, stay where you are."
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"There are three ways in which a ruler can bring misfortune on his army: By commanding the army to advance or to retreat, being ignorant of the fact that it cannot obey. This is called hobbling the army. By attempting to govern an army in the same way as he administers a kingdom, being ignorant of the conditions which obtain in an army. This causes restlessness in the soldier's minds. By employing the officers of his army without discrimination, through ignorance of the military principle of adaptation to circumstances. This shakes the confidence of the soldiers."
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"On dispersive ground, therefore, fight not. On facile ground, halt not. On contentious ground, attack not. On open ground, do not try to block the enemy's way. On the ground of intersecting highways, join hands with your allies. On serious ground, gather in plunder. In difficult ground, keep steadily on the march. On hemmed-in ground, resort to stratagem. On desperate ground, fight."
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"Ground which can be abandoned but is hard to re-occupy is called entangling."
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"What enables the wise sovereign and the good general to strike and conquer, and achieve things beyond the reach of ordinary men, is foreknowledge."
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"Making no mistakes is what establishes the certainty of victory, for it means conquering an enemy that is already defeated."
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"Carefully compare the opposing army with your own, so that you may know where strength is superabundant and where it is deficient."
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