"Art is what we do. Culture is what is done to us. A photograph of an art object is not the art object. An essay about an artist's work is not the artist's work."
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"Five hundred years before Christ some physicians of ancient India, working under the influence of the Lord Buddha, advanced the art of healing to so perfect a state that they were able to abolish surgery, although the surgery of their time was as efficient, or more so, than that of the present day."
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"Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before."
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"There is no art which government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people."
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"All art is unstable. Its meaning is not necessarily that implied by the author. There is no authoritative voice. There are only multiple readings."
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"Good-breeding is the art of showing men, by external signs, the internal regard we have for them. It arises from good sense, improved by conversing with good company."
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"Art is 'I'; science is 'we'."
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"[On gay men:] Let me say, a more artistic, appreciative group of people for the arts does not exist ... They are more knowledgeable, more loving of the arts. They make the average male look stupid."
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"Without discipline and detachment, an actor is an emotional slob, spilling his insides out. This abandonment is having an unfortunate vogue. It is tasteless, formless, absurd. Without containment there is no art. All this vomiting and wheezing and bursting at the seams is no more great acting than the convulsions of raving maniacs."
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"The purpose of art is to stop time."
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"To be bound by traditional martial art style or styles is the way of the mindless, enslaved martial artist. But to be inspired by the traditional martial art and to achieve further heights is the way of genius."
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"The highest art is no art. The best form is no form."
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"A good martial artist does not become tend but ready, not thinking but jet not dreaming. Ready for whatever may come."
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"The aim of art is to project an inner vision into the world, to state in aesthetic creation the deepest psychic and personal experiences of a human being. It is to enable those experiences to be intelligible and generally recognized within the total framework of an ideal world."
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"Imagination offers people consolation for what they cannot be, and humor for what they actually are."
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"After all perhaps the greatness of art lies in the perpetual tension between beauty and pain, the love of men and the madness of creation, unbearable solitude and the exhausting crowd, rejection and consent."
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"We have art in order not to die of life."
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"A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened."
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"Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern."
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"Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private."
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