In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact; to shatter and destroy it is not so good.
Sun Tzu

Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.
Oscar Wilde

I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.
Oscar Wilde

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.
Oscar Wilde

All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.
Oscar Wilde

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
Oscar Wilde

All art is quite useless.
Oscar Wilde

The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.
Oscar Wilde

It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.
Oscar Wilde

What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.
Oscar Wilde

It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.
Oscar Wilde

Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'
Edgar Allan Poe

Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor.
Ernest Hemingway

My goal is to be one with the music. I just dedicate my whole life to this art.
Jimi Hendrix

The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.
Dale Carnegie

Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul; it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us.
Martin Luther

Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.
Martin Luther

Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God.
Martin Luther

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.
Leonardo da Vinci

Art is never finished, only abandoned.
Leonardo da Vinci