The phrase "art of acquiring" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the skill or technique involved in obtaining something, whether it be knowledge, resources, or possessions.
Example: "Mastering the art of acquiring knowledge is essential for personal growth and development."
Alternatives: "skill of obtaining" or "craft of gaining".
Thus far, then, the Sophist and the angler, starting from the art of acquiring, take the same road?
Since its founding in 1892 General Electric has mastered the art of acquiring technologies invented elsewhere, then throwing in enough capital, research and salesmanship to dominate the market.
Those of you skilled in the art of acquiring food for free know that potential sources include the communal coffee machine, catering for meetings, birthdays and other celebrations, and that person or persons in the office for whom baking is a hobby or emotional outlet.
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She is the author of Love and Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution, Notorious Victoria: The Life of Victoria Woodhull, Uncensored and The Art of Acquiring: A Portrait of Etta and Claribel Cone.
Gingeras is quite clear: "Of course not: you can't compare the act of acquiring with the art of creating.
There are so many ways of acquiring art from the financial to the emotional.
While the purchase of decorative art or lease payments on rented art may be deducted or depreciated as a business expense, the cost of acquiring fine art like the examples in Mr. Lauder's collection is generally not deductible.
Last month, after the first rumblings that creditors were pressing the issue of the collection as an asset, Bill Schuette, Michigan's attorney general, issued a forcefully worded opinion saying that the artworks — under the state's trust law and other laws — were "held in trust for the public" and could be sold only for the purpose of acquiring additional art, not for satisfying municipal debts.
And, if so, what a delightful way of acquiring the art of worldly wisdom in learning to "read" people and their self-serving obfuscations about what they are doing on this great stage of life!
How Patterson amassed his hefty collection of bucolic kitsch was not revealed in the report, though we're sure that as a fan of both porcelain tchotchkes and idyllic paintings, his means of acquiring the art was pure.
