“The truth comes as conqueror only because we have lost the art of receiving it as guest.”

“Movement is the translation of life, and if art depicts life, movement should come into art, since we are only aware of living because it moves.”

“Movement is the translation of life and if art depicts life, movement should come into art, since we are only aware of life, because it moves.”

“The customs of that most criminal nation have gained such strength that they have now been received in all lands. The conquered have given laws to the conquerors.”

“By the study of their biographies, we receive each man as a guest into our minds, and we seem to understand their character as the result of a personal acquaintance, because we have obtained from their acts the best and most important means of forming an opinion about them. "What greater pleasure could'st thou gain than this?"”

“She's sent the crows out to blind the guests coming for dinner!"

What?"

She's BLINDING THE GUESTS COMING FOR DINNER!"

Well, that's one way to avoid having to dust, I suppose.”

“We have art in order not to die of the truth.”

“The art of war teaches us to rely not on the likelihood of the enemy's not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him; not on the chance of his not attacking, but rather on the fact that we have made our position unassailable.”

“We have our Arts so we won't die of Truth”

“It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things.”