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Leonard Bernstein Composer, Conductor
Art

"I think it is time we learned the lesson of our century: that the progress of the human spirit must keep pace with technological and scientific progress, or that spirit will die. It is incumbent on our educators to remember this; and music is at the top of the spiritual must list. When the study of the arts leads to the adoration of the formula (heaven forbid), we shall be lost. But as long as we insist on maintaining artistic vitality, we are able to hope in man"

Art Spiritual Music
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Meryl Streep Actress, Producer
Art

"We need art as much as we need good works. You need it like food. You need it for inspiration to keep going on the days that your low. We need each other in that way."

Art Needs Inspiration
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Akira Toriyama Manga Artist
Art

"The method of producing comics in Japan is very hectic, but it's also rewarding because it's possible to do both the story and art all by yourself. In this way, it's possibly to bring out one's individuality. If this idea appeals to you, I call on you to try drawing your own manga."

Art Ideas Drawing
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Chris Martin Musician
Art

"The word spirit comes from the Latin word for "breath" - spiritu - and the origin of the word spirituality has to do with breath and life force, the mysteries of the ancients and all this. The word is very suspect in much of the art world - the Western art world. Certainly, spirituality has become divorced from religious."

Art Religious Latin
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Bruce Lee Martial Artist, Actor, Director
Art

"Even today, I dare not say that I have reached a state of achievement. I'm still learning, for learning is boundless."

Art Today Achievement
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John Wayne Actor, Director
Art

"Don't ever for a minute make the mistake of looking down your nose at westerns. They're art - the good ones, I mean. They deal in life and sudden death and primitive struggle, and with the basic emotions - love, hate, and anger - thrown in. We'll have westerns films as long as the cameras keep turning. The fascination that the Old West has will never die. And as long as people want to pay money to see me act, I'll keep on making westerns until the day I die."

Art Hate Mistake
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Priyanka Chopra Actress
Art

"The great thing about cinema is that it's a great binder. It brings people from across the world together, often erasing the lines between geographies, languages, familiarity, and the like. Cinema is art and art, they say, is a reflection of life and society, so the way we tell our stories is the main differentiator for me."

People Art Reflection
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Ernest Holmes Writer
Art

"Seek to make your work a prayer, your believing an act, your living an art. It is then that the object of your faith will be made visible to you. It is then that you shall 'kiss the lips of your desire.'"

Believe Art Prayer
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Eva Hesse Artist
Art

"What makes a tight circle or a tight little square box more of an intellectual statement than something done emotionally, I don't know. Art is an essence, a center."

Art Essence Squares
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David Foster Author
Art

"This is what the real, no bullshit value of your liberal arts education is supposed to be about: how to keep from going through your comfortable, prosperous, respectable adult life dead, unconscious, a slave to your head and to your natural default setting of being uniquely, completely, imperially alone day in and day out."

Art Real Bullshit
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Cesare Pavese Poet, Novelist
Art

"The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies. The fearful thing about it is that, not knowing what truth may be, we can still recognize lies."

Believe Art Lying
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Bruce Lee Martial Artist, Actor, Director
Art

"A good teacher can never be fixed in a routine... each moment requires a sensitive mind that is constantly changing and constantly adapting. A teacher must never impose this student to fit his favourite pattern; a good teacher functions as a pointer, exposing his student's vulnerability and causing him to explore both internally and finally integrating himself with his being. Martial art should not be passed out indiscriminately."

Art Mind Teacher
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