Quotes of: Abstract-art Keyword

Jefferson was ambivalent about executive power – until he bore executive responsibility.

Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power

A politician's task was to bring reality and policy into the greatest possible account with the ideal and the principled.

Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power

Thou art a votary to fond desire

The Two Gentlemen of Verona

A man who has attained mastery of an art reveals it in his every action.

Zen in the Martial Arts

There is only one way to achieve lasting happiness. That is simply: Be happy.

Zen and the Art of Happiness

To all appearances he was just drifting. In actuality he was just drifting.

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

grades really cover up failure to teach.

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy.

The Art of War

Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.

The Art of War

When the officers are too strong and the common soldiers too weak, the result is COLLAPSE.

The Art of War

We cannot enter into alliances until we are acquainted with the designs of our neighbors.

The Art of War

Knowing the enemy enables you to take the offensive, knowing yourself enables you to stand on the defensive.

The Art of War

A common defect of modern art study is that too many students do not know why they draw.

Robert Henri

The object isn't to make art, it's to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable.

Robert Henri

I was an English major in college with minors in Fine Arts and Humanities.

Sue Grafton

If there is no mystery, for the artist, to solve inside of his art, then there's no point in it. . . . for me, every act of art is the act of solving a mystery.

Truman Capote

If thou art willing to suffer no adversity, how wilt thou be the friend of Christ?

Thomas a Kempis

Anything we can do to encourage our young people to celebrate the arts and believe in a career in the arts is wonderful for Canada and for Canadian youth.

Liane Balaban

Art is the uniting of the subjective with the objective, of nature with reason, of the unconscious with the conscious, and therefore art is the highest means of knowledge.

Leo Tolstoy

The best came from my martial arts teacher, who also taught Elvis. He said, 'Your ego will get you killed.'

William Sanderson

I went to public school my whole life. It was a performing arts school, so I can't say if it was a typical experience or not, because it's all I know.

Eden Sher