The most momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil – Pythagoras

I started to make a study of the art of war and revolution and, whilst abroad, underwent a course in military training. If there was to be guerrilla warfare, I wanted to be able to stand and fight with my people and to share the hazards of war with them – Nelson Mandela

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim – Aristotle

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit – Aristotle

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance – Aristotle

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well – Aristotle