If the enemy has occupied them before you, do not follow him, but retreat and try to entice him away. — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
“Overtime we learn the art of compromise. The problem is we often compromise the most valuable thing: the fire that drives our… — Todd Henry Copy Share Image
art itself shuns commonality: while the scientist may seek the phenomenon that repeats itself, the artist seeks the exception. — Dore Ashton Copy Share Image
I love any opportunity to be able to dance. It's in my blood. I mean, I need to do it as an… — Joan Chen Copy Share Image
I like the illicit nature of street art, but I won't miss the opportunity to make a nice piece because it is… — Invader Copy Share Image
Chaos in nature is immediately challenging and forces a good artist to impose some type of order on his or her perception… — Wolf Kahn Copy Share Image
I live with the things that I love: art, furniture, and objects that I have collected throughout my travels. — Lisa Marie Presley Copy Share Image
That the arts are corrupt does not mean that Christians can abandon them. On the contrary, the corruption of the arts means… — Gene Veith Copy Share Image
It’s a beautiful, distinctive art, and shoes are like the foundations. If the foundations aren’t right, the building won’t stand upright, and… — Jimmy Choo Copy Share Image
Mickalene [Thomas] is an artist that I have admired for a long time. So much of her work inspires me - I… — Morgan Parker Copy Share Image
I recall an August afternoon in Chicago in 1973 when I took my daughter, then seven, to see what Georgia O’Keeffe had… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
The arts, like language, emerged spontaneously and universally in similar forms across cultures, employing imaginative and intellectual capacities that had clear survival… — Denis Dutton Copy Share Image
Our characteristic response to the mutilated statue, the bronze dug up from the earth, is revealing. It is not that we prefer… — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
Black ice is the smoothest naturally occuring ice there is, as if nature were condescending to art. ... Black ice is an… — Lorene Cary Copy Share Image
I feel like all the American artists are aesthetically not very interesting and mired in a complaining relationship to its own culture,… — David Salle Copy Share Image
I'm excited about there being more of a sisterhood these days. Back in the '90s there was a lot of hate -… — Alanis Morissette Copy Share Image
“No artist is ahead of his time. He is the time. It is just that others are behind the time.” — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
I think naturally I'm a very visual kind of person. If I wasn't in filmmaking, I'd be in something related to visuals.… — Neill Blomkamp Copy Share Image
“Concentrate on a single feature – as, build all toward one eye – make all lines lead toward that eye. (Robert Henri)” — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
Music is art, and art is important and rare. Important, rare things are valuable. Valuable things should be paid for. — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
I've been criticized for doing so - crossover music. But I never claimed to be a pure dancehall artist. — Shaggy Copy Share Image
“Your mind is the canvas upon which you are the artist. What will you paint on your canvas today? Will you draw… — James A. Murphy Copy Share Image
I grew up doing martial arts, and I love martial arts movies and fight scenes. I'm pretty athletic, so I enjoy doing… — Aaron Yoo Copy Share Image
To retain his dignity, an artist must live in opposition. He must be critical of his country. If not, then he is… — Bruno Dumont Copy Share Image
Its social: in doing the arts we find out what we need from each other. But its also about survival - surviving… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
'Beale Street' is such an intimate story that I think it requires intimate connections between the artists that are a part of… — KiKi Layne Copy Share Image
If I've made it a little easier for artists to work in violence, great! I've accomplished something. — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
I discovered early that as an artist there was absolutely nothing wrong with being surrounded by people who were not dedicated to… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Know the enemy, know yourself; your victory will never be endangered. Know the ground, know the weather; your victory will then be… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
Art and psychoanalysis give shape and meaning to life and that is why we adore them, but life as it is lived… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
On every hand we observe a truly wise practice, in education, in morals, and in the arts of life, the embodied wisdom… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
IN CINEMA IT IS NECESSARY NOT TO EXPLAIN, BUT TO ACT UPON THE VIEWER'S FEELINGS, AND THE EMOTION WHICH IS AWOKEN IS… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
The secularization of Western culture was accompanied by the elevation of art to the position of a substitute religion to replace Christianity. — Leland Ryken Copy Share Image
All I know is that mine was a completely new theory about art, a new approach that made the pictures appear just… — Domenico Gnoli Copy Share Image
I was just a very shy kid that needed something to do. And I wanted to practice some kind of martial arts… — Aspen Ladd Copy Share Image
We are the measure of all things. And the beauty of our creation, of our art is proportional to the beauty of… — Jonas Mekas Copy Share Image
We have nothing to lose, nothing to gain, nothing we desired anymore- except to make our lives into a work of art. — Lana Del Rey Copy Share Image
In the Renaissance there wasn't a distinction. Bernini was an artist and he made architecture, and Michelangelo also did some great architecture. — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
With the beginning of any record for an artist there's a certain amount of time of finding the blueprint and trying to… — Dr. Luke Copy Share Image
“For the hackneyed art of lying without injury to anyone, Rushbrook, to his shame, was proficient.” — Elizabeth Inchbald Copy Share Image
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