"Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life."
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"If you want to really hurt you parents, and you don't have the nerve to be gay, the least you can do is go into the arts. I'm not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possible can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something."
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"Peace goes into the making of a poem as flour goes into the making of bread."
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"The material and the spiritual are but two parts of one universe and one truth. By overstressing one part or the other, man fails to achieve the balance necessary for harmonious development... Practice the art of living in this world without losing your inner peace of mind. Follow the path of balance to reach the inner wondrous garden of Self-Realization."
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"My art springs from my desire to have things in the world which would otherwise never be there."
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"I am an artist... I am here to live out loud."
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"Acting and making art is just something I love to do, and I love to tell stories that feel important, honest and necessary. It's not about me. It's about being part of something."
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"Among the Igbo the art of conversation is regarded very highly, and proverbs are the palm-oil with which words are eaten."
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"Man can't do without God. Just like you're thirsty, you have to drink water. You just can't go without God."
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"Art reaches its greatest peak when devoid of self-consciousness. Freedom discovers man the moment he loses concern over what impression he is making or about to make."
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"Art calls for complete mastery of techniques, developed by reflection within the soul."
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"The thing I am most aware of is my limits. And this is natural; for I never, or almost never, occupy the middle of my cage; my whole being surges toward the bars."
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"Why do people go to the cinema? What takes them into a darkened room where, for two hours, they watch the play of shadows on a sheet? The search for entertainment? The need for a kind of drug? ..I think that what a person normally goes to the cinema for is time: for time lost or spent or not yet had. He goes there for living experience; for cinema, like no other art, widens, enhances and concentrates a person’s experience-and not only enhances it but makes it longer, significantly longer. That is the power of cinema: ‘stars’, story-lines and entertainment have nothing to do with it."
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"Art is both the taking and giving of beauty; the turning out to the light the inner folds of the awareness of the spirit. It is the recreation on another plane of the realities of the world; the tragic and wonderful realities of earth and men, and of all the inter-relations of these."
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"I think that spirituality is important for all people to develop. I don't mean there necessarily has to be a religious aspect to spirituality. Some people are spiritual in a religious way, other people are spiritual in their work and in their art and in their treatment of other people."
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"A country that has few museums is both materially poor and spiritually poor...Museums, like theaters and libraries, are a means to freedom."
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"No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone."
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"Bad critics judge a work of art by comparing it to pre-existing theories. They always go wrong when confronted with a masterpiece because masterpieces make their own rules."
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"Don't flail against the world, use it. Flexibility is the operative principle in the art of war."
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"The good fighter is able to secure himself against defeat, but cannot make certain of defeating the enemy."
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