Art & Creativity Sayings
21 sayings found from the Ancient era from 21 authors
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The uncarved block, though small, is nowhere in the world inferior. If princes and kings could but hold on to it, all creatures would submit to them.
Who created light and darkness? Who created sleep and waking?
Don't eat your heart.
The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
Of all creatures that breathe and move upon the earth, nothing is bred that is weaker than man.
The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.
A point is that which has no part.
The Earth is not the center of everything, but it is a significant part of the cosmos.
My beauty is my weapon.
If I have played my part well, clap your hands, and dismiss me with applause from the stage.
I have collected all the writings of the Empire and burnt those that were of no use.
Imagine that you have died and your life has come to an end. Now think about the life you wish you had lived. Live that life now.
We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.
What does not transmit light creates darkness.
The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.
The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.
The greatest music has no sound; the greatest form has no shape.
The great man is he who does not lose his child's heart.
The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.