"Good taste has everything to do with being cultured and being refined, and if art has to do with anything, it has to do with being human."
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"The sight of anything extremely beautiful, in nature or in art, brings back the memory of what one loves, with the speed of lightning."
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"Therefore the skillful leader subdues the enemy's troops without any fighting; he captures their cities without laying siege to them; he overthrows their kingdom without lengthy operations in the field."
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"The secret to life is to put yourself in the right lighting. For some, it's a Broadway spotlight; for others, a lamplit desk. Use your natural powers -- of persistence, concentration, and insight -- to do work you love and work that matters. Solve problems. make art, think deeply."
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"Time is the great art of man."
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"True perfection seems imperfect, yet it is perfectly itself. True fullness seems empty, yet it is fully present. True straightness seems crooked. True wisdom seems foolish. True art seems artless. The Master allows things to happen. She shapes events as they come. She steps out of the way and lets the Tao speak for itself."
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"A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament."
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"Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter."
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"All art is immortal. For emotion for the sake of emotion is the aim of art, and emotion for the sake of action is the aim of life."
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"I love the art of acting, and I love film, because you always have anther chance if you want it. You know, if we - if this isn't going well, you can't say - well, you could say - let's stop. Let's start over again, Gene, because you were too nervous."
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"Well, art is art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water."
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"The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art."
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"The job of the poet (a job which can't be learned) consists of placing those objects of the visible world which have become invisible due to the glue of habit, in an unusual position which strikes the soul and gives them a tragic force."
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"People who aren't artists often feel that artists are inspired. But if you work at your art you don't have time to be inspired."
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"I believe art is utterly important. It is one of the things that could save us. We don't have to rely totally on experience if we can do things in our imagination.... It's the only way in which you can live more lives than your own. You can escape your own time, your own sensibility, your own narrowness of vision."
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"Living well is an art that can be developed: a love of life and ability to take great pleasure from small offerings and assurance that the world owes you nothing and that every gift is exactly that, a gift."
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"I've always told the musicians in my band to play what they know and then play above that. Because then anything can happen, and that's where great art and music happens."
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"A man asked Muhammad what was the mark whereby he might know the reality of his faith. Muhammad said, 'If thou derive pleasure from the good which thou hast performed and thou be grieved for the evil which thou hast committed, thou art a true believer.' The man said. 'In what doth a fault really consist' Muhammad said, 'when action pricketh thy conscience, forsake it.'"
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"Above all, artists must not be only in art galleries or museums - they must be present in all possible activities. The artist must be the sponsor of thought in whatever endeavor people take on, at every level."
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"Art always demands of us something new."
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