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

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Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“Art is an instrument in the war against the enemy.”

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Author:Pablo Picasso

“Fortunately art is a community effort - a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh.”

World Art War Artist Community Effort Solitude Art Is Flesh Select Community Living

Book:Journals: Early Fifties, Early Sixties

Source: Journals: Early Fifties, Early Sixties

“Next to war, art is the greatest way to immortalize a reputation.”

Way Art War Next Art Is Reputation Immortality

Author:Roman Genn

“I don't doubt that at the dawn of martial arts, the main goal was to beat up one's opponents in the most effective way possible. But then, indirectly, the alchemy of martial arts began to strike some chords deep within the spirit of many individuals, transforming living war-machines into poets, artists, and philosophers.”

Source: On the Warrior's Path, Second Edition: Philosophy, Fighting, and Martial Arts Mythology

“Art transcends war. Art is the language of God and war is the barking of men. Beethoven is bigger than war.”

Men Art War Language Art Is Bigger

Author:Fannie Hurst

“Art is a war - between ourselves and the forces of self-sabotage that would stop us from doing our work. The artist is a warrior.”

Art War Self Artist Force Art Is Warrior Sabotage Self Sabotage

Author:Steven Pressfield

“One of the greatest difficulties in civil war is, that more art is required to know what should be concealed from our friends, than what ought to be done against our enemies.”

Knows Should Art War Done Enemy Friends Ought Art Is Difficulty Civil War Concealed

Book:The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author

Source: The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author

“Art isn't done to decorate apartments, but to wage war against the enemy.”

Art War Done Enemy Art Is Apartment

Author:Pablo Picasso

“The economy of gift, of art, is fundamentally opposed to the economy of war.”

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Book:The Peaceable Classroom

Source: The Peaceable Classroom

“The power of art is as powerful as weapons of mass destruction; it's just where war destroys, art inspires. But in order to inspire, you need to react to it. And, if it doesn't penetrate your mind, you can't react to it.”

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Author:Nicolas Winding Refn

“There's enough ugliness - you know, we got wars going on and people dying and sickness and everything. We don't need to have our art be ugly. But it is, in a lot of it. And these people justify this crap by saying, "Oh we're just representing what's out there, man". Basically, you're making it worse and number one, the artist's job is to elevate people and to lift people up and to give them a place to go, something to hold on to.”

People Men Giving Art War Enough Dying Art Is Ugly Sickness Justify Crap Ugliness People Dying

Author:Don McLean

“Art is not politics. The glory of the novel is that in its essence, it is a democratic form, because it treats individuals as worthy of scrutiny. That alone is a kind of political act. A good novel about a tea party of rich women can be just as galvanizing and important to the soul as War and Peace, so I think it's not really the job of artists to do anything. They can have their opinions as private citizens, but they must continue making their art.”

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Author:Paul Auster

“Every work of art is aggressive, Isabella. And every artist's life is a small war or a large one, beginning with oneself and one's limitations. To achieve anything you must first have ambition and then talent, knowledge, and finally the opportunity.”

Firsts Art War Life Is Artist Opportunity Achieve Talent Ambition Art Is Oneself Limitation Works Of Art Aggressive

Author:Carlos Ruiz Zafon

“The person who practices an art is an artist, not a samurai, and one should have the intention of being called a samurai.”

Should Persons Art War Artist Practice Art Is Should Have Intention Samurai

Book:Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai

Source: Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai