Art Quotes by Napoleon Bonaparte

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— Napoleon Bonaparte

Time is the great art of man.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Imagination governs the world.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

A good sketch is better than a long speech.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

In war there is but one favorable moment; the great art is to seize it!

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Chess is too difficult to be a game and not serious enough to be a science or an art.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

The great art of governing consists in not letting men grow old in their jobs.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

The art of government is not to let me grow stale.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

The art of being sometimes audacious and sometimes very prudent is the secret of success.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Men of genius are meteors destined to burn themselves out in lighting up their age.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

The art of war is to gain time when your strength is inferior.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin,…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Strategy is the art of making use of time and space. I am less concerned about the later than the former. Space…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

If the art of war were nothing but the art of avoiding risks, glory would become the prey of mediocre minds… I…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

The most difficult art is not in the choice of men, but in giving to the men chosen the highest service of…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Music, of all the liberal arts, has the greatest influence over the passions, and it is that to which the legislator ought…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

The art of land warfare is an art of genius, of inspiration. On the sea nothing is genius or inspiration; everything is…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

War is not at all such a difficult art as people think. . . . In reality it would seem that he…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

A legislator must know how to take advantage of even the defects of those he wants to govern. The art consists in…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Read over and over again the campaigns of Alexander, Hannibal, Caesar, Gustavus, Turenne, Eugene and Frederic. ... This is the only way…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

In a battle, as in a siege, the art consists in concentrating very heavy fire on a particular point. The line of…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

The art of the police is not to see what it is useless that it should see.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

All the great captains have performed vast achievements by conforming with the rules of art--by adjusting efforts to obstacles.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

The art of choosing men is not nearly so difficult as the art of enabling those chosen to attain their full worth.

— Napoleon Bonaparte