QUOTES
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I envision a future where more of us will call ourselves artists and work together to make an art concerned with the primary issues of life. I envision a future where art is once again honored for its power to inspire, teach, transform and heal. I envision a future where all people dance together, where the circle is open enough for both children and grandparents.
-- Anna Halprin |
A painter paints pictures on canvas but musicians paint their pictures on silence.
-- Leopold Stokowski |
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The best journalism has always come from dissidents. There's no such thing as a good establishment journalist, only good stenographers. -- P. Sainath |
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Love is the poetry of the senses. -- Honoré de Balzac |
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If a day goes by without my doing something related to photography, it's as though I've neglected something essential to my existence, as though I had forgotten to wake up.
-- Richard Avedon |
My breakthrough came very late in life, really only starting when I was fifty years old. But at that time I felt as though I had the strength for new deeds and ideas.
-- Edvard Munch |
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He (Vincent) has painted a few portraits which have turned out well, but he always does them for no payment. It is a pity that he does not want to earn something, for if he did want to he could make something here, but you can't change a person. -- Theo van Gogh |
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At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet. -- Plato |
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To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts. -- Henry David Thoreau |
Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives.
-- William A. Foster |
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When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.
-- Henry David Thoreau |
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To see the world in a grain of sand, and to see heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hands, and eternity in an hour. -- William Blake |
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The books that help you most are those which make you think the most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty. -- Theodore Parker |
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Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. -- Albert Einstein |
I try to be a truthful artist and I try to show a level of courage. I enjoy that. I'm a messenger.
-- Jeff Koons |
True art takes note not merely of form but also of what lies behind.
-- Mahatma Ghandi |
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He can only obey the apparently alien impulse within him and follow where it leads, sensing that his work is greater than himself, and wields a power which is not his and which he cannot command. -- Carl Gustav Jung |
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If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse. However, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that. -- Goethe |
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A person's true wealth is the good he or she does in the world. -- Mohammed |
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The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. -- Albert Einstein |
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Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact. -- William Burroughs |
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Working on our own consciousness is the most important thing that we are doing at any moment, and being love is a supreme creative act. -- Ram Daas |
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This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in. -- Charles Dickens |
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An artist chooses his subjects.. that is the way he praises. -- Friedrich Nietzsche |
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