“Architects and painters know precisely what they are about as long as they deal with material phenomena. … But when they come to the aesthetics of their work, when they aim at a particular effect on the mind or on the senses, the rules dissolve into nothing but vague ideas.”
On War (1832), Book 2
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Source: The Rise of Endymion (1997), Chapter 8 (p. 135)

Quoted in George Plimpton ed Writers at Work' Viking (1976)

Source: after 2000, Doubt and belief in painting' (2003), p. 47

"Human Nature is Defective", speech to the Young People's Socialist League, The Chicago Tribune, 20 Oct. 1910

(before 1880) As quoted in Renoir – his life and work, Francois Fosca, Book Club Associates /Thames and Hudson Ltd, London 1975, p. 176
undated quotes, Renoir – his life and work, 1975
“A warrior acts as if he knows what he is doing, when in effect he knows nothing.”
Source: The Wheel of Time: Shamans of Ancient Mexico, Their Thoughts About Life, Death and the Universe], (1998), Quotations from "Journey to Ixtlan" (Chapter 8)