it is better to recapture an army entire than to destroy it, to capture a regiment, a detachment or a company entire than to destroy them.
If your opponent is of choleric temper, seek to irritate him. Pretend to be weak, that he may grow arrogant.
Cunning grows in deceit at seeing itself discovered, and tries to deceive with truth itself.
The victorious army is victorious first and seeks battle later; the defeated army seeks battle first and seeks victory later.
When we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away...
Move swift as the Wind and closely-formed as the Wood. Attack like the Fire and be still as the Mountain.
And the fifteenth century was an impassioned age, so ardent and serious in its pursuit of art that it consecrated everything with which art had to ad as a religious object.
I was attracted to a lot of different art forms - dancing, painting. But there's something about music that people hold so close. It's such a powerful art form, and that's why I live for it.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
I think impersonation is a great art. It's something that I enjoy doing, in a frivolous and lighthearted way. But I don't flatter myself to think I'm an impersonator.
I don't think it's worth discussing new directions in the context of Chinese art - there were no old directions, either. Chinese art has never had any clear orientation.
The smart thing in the art world is to have one good idea and never have another.
I went to an art school in Brooklyn and painted Fine Art, if that's what you'd call it for eight years in New York, until I saw the first underground comics in the East Village Other.
They say Princes learn no art truly, but the art of horsemanship. The reason is, the brave beast is no flatterer. He will throw a prince as soon as his groom.
To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts.
What underlies great science is what underlies great art, whether it is visual or written, and that is the ability to distinguish patterns out of chaos.
High and low culture come together in all Post Modern art, and American poetry is not excluded from this.
Art can't be taught; passion can't be taught; discipline can't be taught; but craft can be taught. And writing is both an art and a craft.
In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovations of the period.
Poetry is one of the oldest of all art forms, and one of its powers for shamans and tribal leaders was the mnemonic.
Supreme serenity still remains the Ideal of great Art. The shapes and transitory forms of life are but stages toward this Ideal, which Christ's religion illuminates with His divine light.
