The art of leading, in operations large or small, is the art of dealing with humanity, of working diligently on behalf of men, of being sympathetic with them, but equally, of insisting that they make a square facing toward their own problems.
– S. L. A. Marshall, Men Against Fire, 1947
The art of life is to show your hand. There is no diplomacy like candor. You may lose by it now and then, but it will be a loss well gained if you do. Nothing is so boring as having to keep up a deception.
– Edward Verall Lucas
The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings.
– Okakura Kakuzo
The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mood of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change for happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up.
– Charles Langbridge Morgan
The art of living easily as to money is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means.
– Sir Henry Taylor
The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.
– Marcus Aelius Aurelius
The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing, in so far as it stands ready against the accidental and the unforeseen, and is not apt to fall.
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
The art of living lies in a fine mingling of holding on and letting go.
– Havelock Ellis
The art of love ... is largely the art of persistence.
– Albert Ellis
The Art of Love: knowing how to combine the temperment of a vampire with the discretion of an anemone.
– E.M. Cioran
The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
– Voltaire
The art of mothering is to teach the art of living to children.
– Elain Heffner
The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.
– Alfred North Whitehead
The art of progress is to preserve order amid change.
– A. N. Whitehead
The art of surrender is the art of getting out of the way of your own growth.
– Bryant McGill
The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest possible amount of feathers with the smallest amount of hissing.
– Jean Baptiste Colbert
The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving.
– Ulysses S. Grant
The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation.
– Franois Auguste Ren Rodin
The beautiful, which is perhaps inseparable from art, is not after all tied to the subject, but to the pictorial representation. In this way and in no other does art overcome the ugly without avoiding it.
– Paul Klee
The brightest sun of the art always rises on the horizons of unhappiness.
– Mehmet Murat ildan
The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.
– Friedrich Nietzsche
The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subltly and feel nobly.
– Aldous Huxley
The great art of giving consists in this the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.
– Baltasar Gracian
The great art of giving consists in this: the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.
The history of the Victorian Age will never be written we know too much about it. For ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.
– Lytton Strachey
