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"Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life. Although the spirit be not master of that which it creates through music, yet it is blessed in this creation, which, like every creation of art, is mightier than the artist."
"Critics, mathematicians, scientists and busybodies want to classify everything, marking the boundaries and limits... In art, there is room for all possibilities."
"Art is a finger up the bourgeoisie ass."
"The people who make art their business are mostly imposters."
"Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth."
"Learning is as much an art as teaching"
"Painting is silent poetry."
"The Dance, of all the arts, is the one that most influences the soul. Dancing is divine in its nature and is the gift of God."
"Music is a spiritual doorway its power comes from the fact that it plugs directly into the soul, unlike a lot of visual art or textual information that has to go through the more filtering processes of the brain."
"The man who knows how will always be the student, but the man who knows why will continue to be the instructor."
"Through the art of affirmative prayer the limitless resources of the Spirit are at my command. The power of the Infinite is at my disposal."
"Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation."
"Style is the answer to everything. A fresh way to approach a dull or dangerous thing. To do a dull thing with style is preferable to doing a dangerous thing without it. To do a dangerous thing with style is what I call art."
"They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art."
"Honesty in art inspires and moves me. I am passionate about creating truthful experiences as much as I love being the spectator to a brilliant body of work."
"Martial arts, like any art, is an unrestricted athletic expression of an individual soul."
"A martial artist has to take responsibility for himself and accept the consequences of his own doing."
"Where there is no style, there is no slave. Martial Arts mean honestly expressing yourself. No style. No slave."
"The aim of art is to project an inner vision into the world."
"If we want to make meaning, we need to make art. Cook, write, draw, doodle, paint, scrapbook, take pictures, collage, knit, rebuild an engine, sculpt, dance, decorate, act, sing - it doesn't matter. As long as we're creating, we're cultivating meaning."
