"In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine."
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"Intimacy is a difficult art."
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"Whenever any one informs us that he has found a man who knows all the arts, and all things else that anybody knows, and every single thing with a higher degree of accuracy than any other man - whoever tells us this, I think that we can only imagine him to be a simple creature who is likely to have been deceived by some wizard or actor whom he met, and whom he thought all-knowing, because he himself was unable to analyse the nature of knowledge and ignorance and imitation."
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"Attack is the secret of defense; defense is the planning of an attack."
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"Mine is the art of inspiring people to turn themselves inside out, transform their suffering into art, their art into awareness and their awareness into action"
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"One of the great events in my life was my first meeting with Edison. This wonderful man, who had received no scientific training, yet had accomplished so much, filled me with amazement. I felt that the time I had spent studying languages, literature and art was wasted; though later, of course, I learned this was not so."
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"Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together."
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"Tell me what company thou keepest and I'll tell thee what thou art."
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"I was born into a world of art. I always thought that in life, you breathe, you eat, you go to sleep and you draw."
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"One of the great functions of art is to help us imagine what it is like to be not ourselves, what it is like to be someone or something else, what it is like to live in another skin, what it is like to live in another body, and in that sense to surpass ourselves, to go out beyond ourselves."
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"Art requires imagination. It requires Creativity. Creativity requires experience and experience comes from your life. And your life is expressed in your art."
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"Art is born and takes hold wherever there is a timeless and insatiable longing for the spiritual..."
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"I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is."
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"Art for art's sake makes no more sense than gin for gin's sake."
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"Art is not about something, Art is something"
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"Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm & constant."
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"Military tactics are like unto water; for water in its natural course runs away from high places and hastens downwards... Water shapes its course according to the nature of the ground over which it flows; the soldier works out his victory in relation to the foe whom he is facing. Therefore, just as water retains no constant shape, so in warfare there are no constant conditions. He who can modify his tactics in relation to his opponent and thereby succeed in winning, may be called a heaven-born captain."
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"Chess is too difficult to be a game and not serious enough to be a science or an art."
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"There is no art form that has so much in common with film as music. Both affect our emotions directly, not via the intellect."
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"Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will."
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