Carl von Clausewitz Quotes:
Ocupation: Military Historian
Life: July 1, 1780 - November 16, 1831
Birthday: July 1
Death: November 16
Architects and painters know precisely what they are about as long as they deal with material phenomena.... But when they come to the aesthetics of their work, when they aim at a particular effect on the mind or on the senses, the rules dissolve into nothing but vague ideas.
source: Carl von Clausewitz, Michael Howard, Peter Paret (1989). “On War”, p.136, Princeton University Press
topic: Ideas, Long, Mind, Vague Ideas
