Art & Creativity Sayings

I have been so afflicted with gout that I have not been able to write a single word with my own hand.

The art of governing consists in knowing how to choose.

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 on.

For in all the states of created beings capable of laws, where there is no law, there is no freedom.

The ear is the avenue to the heart.

Why should I persecute those who are equally the creatures of God?

The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.

The greater part of mankind are more governed by interest than by reason.

Fear of power invisible, feigned by the mind, or imagined from tales publicly allowed, is religion; not allowed, superstition.

Man, in so far as he is determined to act, is a part of nature, and is necessarily determined to do whatever he does.

Monads have no windows through which anything could enter or depart.

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

I am not a creature of circumstances; I am a creature of principle.

The most part of all your princes have more delight in warlike matters and the feats of hunting than in the good arts of peace.

The desire to write grows with writing.

We know the truth, not only by reason, but also by the heart.

Novelty is not innovation.

If music be the food of love, play on.

The greatest beauty is that which is natural.

Architecture is frozen music.