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Some painters report that they... do not use a color strategy. That may be true, but in the end, if the painting is harmonious and successful, we will be able to find a strategy at work, whether it came about intuitively or by design. (Mitchell Albala)

Strategy is the art of making use of time and space. I am less chary of the latter than the former; space we can recover, time never. (Napoleon Bonaparte)

The approval of the public is to be avoided like the plague. It is absolutely essential to keep the public from entering if one wishes to avoid confusion. I must add that the public must be kept panting in expectation at the gate by a system of challenges and provocations. (Andre Breton)

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists. (Anita Brookner)

However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results. (Winston Churchill)

Nurture doubt as a creative strategy. (Josh Goldberg)

Be ingenious. Howard Pyle got his start in illustrating by illustrating his own stories. (Irwin Greenberg)

To will a new form is unacceptable, because will builds distortion. Desire, too, is incomplete and arbitrary. These strategies, however intimate they might become, must especially be removed to clear the way for something else... (Philip Guston)

Have a strategy for tackling design, value patterns and color harmony, a plan that leads to a painting which is modern, but has its roots in the art of the past. (Sidney Hermel)

It is always your next move. (Napoleon Hill)

Do what you can to do what you ought, and leave hoping and fearing alone. (Thomas H. Huxley)

Strategy is a style of thinking, a conscious and deliberate process, an intensive implementation system, the science of ensuring future success. (Pete Johnson)

I honestly have no strategy whatsoever. I'm waiting for that script to pop through the letterbox and completely surprise me. (Ben Kingsley)

Your strategy is the road map for bringing your goals to fruition... Ask yourself, 'What are the steps I need to take to achieve this goal?' Be careful not to overwhelm yourself by taking on too much at once. (Lauren Mackler)

In strategy it is important to see distant things as if they were close and to take a distanced view of close things. (Miyamoto Musashi)

My whole career strategy has been to build a base so that I could take the roles I want to play. I'd hate to think that a shorter part might not be available because I was worried about my billing. (Jack Nicholson)

Many of our failures in life and art come about because of the lack of strategy. This is the facility which is needed to produce better than average results. (P. Papadopoulos)

What do artists do? Artists give people something they didn't know they were missing: a dance, a piece of music, a painting, a piece of sculpture. Catering to that need is the best business strategy. (Daniel H. Pink)

There is always a better strategy than the one you have; you just haven't thought of it yet. (Sir Brian Pitman)

The essence of strategy is that you must set limits on what you're trying to accomplish. (Michael Porter)

The processes used to arrive at the total strategy are typically fragmented, evolutionary, and largely intuitive. (James Quinn)

- interview with Shirley Kaneda, 1994...
I might think I'm being very strategic, but in the end my intuition comes in and dictates which part of my strategy I'm going to follow in the painting. There's a point in the studio when I'm being intuitive, but maybe that intuition is being directed by my idea, strategy or process. (Fiona Rae)

Creative without strategy is called 'art.' Creative with strategy is called 'advertising.' (Jef I. Richards)

What do you want to achieve or avoid? The answers to this question are objectives. How will you go about achieving your desire results? The answer to this you can call strategy. (William E. Rothschild)

Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs. (Susan Sontag)

-The Power of Discipline
A wish has been defined as a 'goal with no energy behind it.' Hope is not a strategy. (Brian Tracy)

You may not be interested in strategy, but strategy is interested in you. (Leon Trotsky)

What is needed is the constant unmasking of ego's strategy. (Chogyam Trungpa)

The best strategy relies upon an unlimited set of responses. (Morihei Ueshiba)

Strategy will compensate the talent. The talent will never compensate the strategy. (Marco Pierre White)