#ate

After a few months in my parents' basement, I took an apartment near the state university, where I discovered both crystal methamphetamine and conceptual art. Either one of these things are dangerous, but in combination they have the potential to destroy entire civilizations. ↗

— David Sedaris

#apartment #art #basement #both #civilizations

Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win ↗

— Sun Tzu

#art

Artists exist to show us the world. So do windows.
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— Jarod Kintz

#artists #humor #illuminate #inform #show

If it weren't for greed, intolerance, hate, passion and murder, you would have no works of art, no great buildings, no medical science, no Mozart, no Van Gough, no Muppets and no Louis Armstrong. ↗

— Jasper Fforde

#buildings #greed #hate #humor #intolerance

Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt. ↗

— Sun Tzu

#strategy #war #art

Dreams are what guide us, art is what defines us, math is what makes it all possible, and love is what lights our way. ↗

— Mike Norton

#art #aspiration #aspirations #define #destiny

The French say you get hungry when you’re eating, and I get inspired when I’m working. It’s my engine ↗

— Karl Lagerfeld

#chanel #create #designer #fashion #french

Attack is the secret of defense; defense is the planning of an attack. ↗

— Sun Tzu

#strategy #war #art

In the final scene of Power, the Supreme Court justices appear as a striking abstraction: Nine scowling masks line up in a row on top of a giant podium. Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes speaks the majority opinion: 'Water power, the right to convert it into electric energy, and the electric energy thus produced constitute property belonging to the United States. ↗

— Susan Quinn

#ownership #power #property #water #art

The painted picture was a bit rough, which was probably done on purpose, yet seemed eerily real as if there actually was a way to step through it into the wild jungle ↗

— Akutra-Ramses Atenosis Cea

#collateral #three-dimensional #wild #art