“Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form.”
“The military art is not an accomplishment, an art for dilettante, a sport.”
Source: Precepts and Judgments (1919), p. 214
Context: The military art is not an accomplishment, an art for dilettante, a sport. You do not make war without reason, without an object, as you would give yourself up to music, painting, hunting, lawn tennis, where there is no great harm done whether you stop altogether or go on, whether you do little or much. Everything in war is linked together, is mutually interdependent, mutually interpenetrating. When you are at war you have no power to act at random. Each operation has a raison d'etre, that is an object; that object, once determined, fixes the nature and the value of the means to be resorted to as well as the use which ought to be made of the forces.
1840s, Heroes and Hero-Worship (1840), The Hero as Divinity
“Cookery is become an art, a noble science; cooks are gentlemen.”
Section 2, member 2, subsection 2.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I
“But if you want to be a painter you must go to France — France is the only school of Art.”
Source: Confessions of a Young Man http://www.gutenberg.org/files/12278/12278-h/12278-h.htm (1886), Ch. 1.
India became a sporting nation in the last decade: Kumble
“France will always be a great nation.”
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
