Quotes About Control

The highest art form of all is a human being in control of himself and his airplane in flight, urging the spirit of a machine to match his own.

Painting is stronger than me, it makes me do it's bidding.

You can't control what other people think about your art. Think about the part of yourself that you can control, which is your ability to be kind and loving and creative.

Politics is the art of controlling your environment.

The rhythm is below me, the rhythm of the heat. The rhythm is around me, the rhythm has control. The rhythm is inside me, the rhythm has my soul.

When you really get technique... there is no strength that will stop you.

Discipline is simply the art of making the soldiers fear their officers more than the enemy.

Opera is an extremely disciplined art form, and every excess a singer indulges in has a direct effect on the voice.

It isn't only art that is incompatible with happiness, it's also science. Science is dangerous, we have to keep it most carefully chained and muzzled.

Take this at least, this last advice, my son: Keep a stiff rein, and move but gently on: The coursers of themselves will run too fast, Your art must be to moderate their haste.

Any piece of art, when you're putting it on a certain platform, if the platform becomes a political place, you can manipulate things.

It's an extreme to go from an artist like myself to a commercial artist with art directors looking over your shoulder, or any other knucklehead telling you what your art should look like.

Diplomacy is the art of letting the other party have things your way.

The end of the republic is to enervate and to weaken all other bodies so as to increase its own body.

SM is an art. Doing it well requires more than a bag full of expensive whips and exotic electrical toys, a closet full of fetish clothes, or a basement filled with bondage furniture.

Only tyrannies understand the power of art.

As I watched him on the stage, my hands were clinched in fists of rage. No angel born in hell, could break that Satan's spell.

I'll ruin everything you are, I'll give you television.

The art of plucking the goose without making it cry out has been developed to a high state of perfection at the hands of the war makers.

Tyranny has no need of arts or sciences, for its policy, which is very shallow and without any refinement, only consists in shedding blood.

So-called Chinese art and culture is under control of the Party. They exist to serve the official agenda. I call it fake art and culture.

Thai society rarely attempts to control literature in the same way that it vigilantly polices visual art. It's ironic because people in this society are more aware of literature than they are of art.

Art is manipulation, the management of material, the directing of fate... Who does that directing?

Necessity is stronger far than art.