There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.

Let a hundred flowers bloom.

War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.

Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.

If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.

There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.

I have witnessed the tremendous energy of the masses. On this foundation it is possible to accomplish any task whatsoever.

To read too many books is harmful.

Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years.

Letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend is the policy for promoting the progress of the arts and the sciences and a flourishing culture in our land.

An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy.

The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.

An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy

War can only be abolished through war and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.

Its always darkest before it becomes totally black.

Let a hundred flowers bloom let a hundred schools of thought contend.

Complacency is the enemy of study.

Investigation may be likened to the long months of pregnancy and solving a problem to the day of birth. To investigate a problem is indeed to solve it.

Ours is a peoples democratic dictatorship led by the working class and based on the worker peasant alliance.

Disaster and chaos are always good.

Despise the enemy strategically but take him seriously tactically.

Dont give a child a fish but show him how to fish.

Imperialism is a paper tiger.

We are indebted to Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin for giving us a weapon. The weapon is not a machine-gun, but Marxism-Leninism.

There may be thousands of principles of Marxism, but in the final analysis they can be summed up in one sentence: Rebellion is justified.

Morality begins at the point of a gun.

Revolutionary war is an antitoxin which not only eliminates the enemy's poison but also purges us of our own filth.

The revolutionary war is a war of the masses; it can be waged only by mobilizing the masses and relying on them.

Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that count.

The spark from a tiny star can ignite the plains.

Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

The principal rule of art is to please and to move. All the other rules were created to achieve this first one.

I grew up with art from the innocent age of ten - with art, but with no sense of identity.

One does not devote one's life in art to shock an audience.

The other great development has been in photography, but that too was influenced by Conceptual art.

My art became very public.

Riding a race bike is an art - a thing that you do because you feel something inside.

The idea is, if I can't heal from my art, then how can you heal?

But in the finished art of the song the use of words has no connection with the use of words in poetry.

One does not need buildings, money, power, or status to practice the Art of Peace. Heaven is right where you are standing, and that is the place to train.

I don't believe in art. I believe in artists.

Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal.

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

We have often been attracted to the story of the other, the outcast. And he and I just loved working together, so it just kept happening, and our relationship is completely bound up with our work. We enjoy each other's art.

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands.

At the University of Maryland, my first year I started off planning to major in art because I was interested in theatre design, stage design or television design.

Art is an expression of who you are. Parts that I play are my sculptures.

There has always been quite a strong black and white art tradition in Australia, with quite a large contingent of cartoonists, given the size of the population.