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Drama is like a dream, it is not real, but it is really felt.
- Abhinavagupta
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Theater |
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In life as in the dance: Grace glides on blistered feet.
- Alice Abrams
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Dance |
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Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
- Scott Adams
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Visual Arts |
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Good art is not what it looks like, but what it does to us.
- Roy Adzak
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Visual Arts |
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Everything in the universe has rhythm. Everything dances.
- Maya Angelou
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Dance |
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Any museum can invite you to look. A great one changes the way you see.
- Anonymous
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Visual Arts |
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Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did, backwards and on high heels.
- Anonymous
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Dance |
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Anyone who says sunshine brings happiness has never danced in the rain.
- Anonymous
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Dance |
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Countless unseen details are often the only difference between mediocre and magnificent.
- Anonymous
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Visual Arts |
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Art is the imagination expressed through the senses.
- Anonymous
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Visual Arts |
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Dance isn't something that can be explained in words; it has to be danced.
- Paige Arden
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Dance |
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The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
- Aristotle
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Visual Arts |
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What we play is life.
- Louis Armstrong
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Music |
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Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother’s womb.
- Jean Arp
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Visual Arts |
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I believe that interpretation should be like a transparent glass, a window for the composer's music.
- Vladimir Ashkenazy
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Music |
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I just dance. I just put my feet in the air and move them around.
- Fred Astaire
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Dance |
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Dance till the stars come down from the rafters. Dance, Dance, Dance till you drop.
- W.H. Auden
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Dance |
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Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
- Berthold Auerbach
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Music |
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There is always music amongst the trees in the garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it.
- M. Aumonier
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Music |
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Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself.
- Marcus Aurelius
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Visual Arts |
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The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
- Sir Francis Bacon
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Visual Arts |
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First comes the sweat. Then comes the beauty if you're very lucky and have said your prayers.
- George Balanchine
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Dance |
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I don't want people who want to dance, I want people who have to dance.
- George Balanchine
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Dance |
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Dance is music made visible.
- George Balanchine
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Dance |
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A nation creates music - the composer only arranges it.
- Bela Bartok
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Music |
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The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.
- Mikhail Baryshnikov
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Visual Arts |
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Genius is childhood recalled at will.
- Charles Baudelaire
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Visual Arts |
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Dancing can reveal all the mystery that music conceals.
- Charles Baudelaire
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Dance |
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There are shortcuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them.
- Viki Baum
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Dance |
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Patience is an integral part of talent.
- Vicki Baum
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Literary Arts |
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Dance first. Think later. It's the natural order.
- Samuel Beckett
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Dance |
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Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
- Henry Ward Beecher
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Visual Arts |
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Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess.
- Ludwig Van Beethoven
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Music |
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Imagination has always had powers of resurrection that no science can match.
- Ingrid Bengis
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Visual Arts |
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If you really believe music is dangerous, you should let it go in one ear and out the other.
- José Bergamín
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Music |
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Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.
- Leonard Bernstein
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Music |
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When I dance, I cannot judge, I cannot hate, I cannot separate myself from life.
- Hans Bos
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Dance |
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Study Bach. There you will find everything.
- Johannes Brahms
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Music |
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Architecture is inhabited sculpture.
- Constantin Brancusi
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Visual Arts |
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Composing is like driving down a foggy road...
- Benjamin Britten
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Music |
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Dance can give the inarticulate a voice.
- Pamela Brown
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Dance |
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A child sings before it speaks, dances almost before it walks, music is with us from the beginning.
- Pamela Brown
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Music |
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Dance every performance as if it were your last.
- Erik Bruhn
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Dance |
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In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
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Visual Arts |
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On with the dance! Let joy be unconfined.
- Lord Byron
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Dance |
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Learning is an active process. We learn by doing.
- Dale Carnegie
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Visual Arts |
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Music to me is like breathing - I don't get tired of breathing, I don't get tired of music.
- Ray Charles
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Music |
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Ladanse,c'est le mouvement,et le mouvement, c'est la vie. Dance is movement, and movement is life.
- Ludmilla Chiriaeff
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Dance |
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Nothing is more beautiful than a guitar, except, possibly, two.
- Fredric Chopin
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Music |
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Where words fail, music speaks.
- Hans Christian Andersen
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Music |
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We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.
- Sir Winston Churchill
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Visual Arts |
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How inimitably graceful children are in general -- before they learn to dance.
- S.T. Coleridge
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Dance |
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Let a man be stimulated by poetry, established by the rules of propriety, and perfected by music.
- Confucius
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Music |
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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.
- Pat Conroy
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Music |
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Dancing is like dreaming with your feet.
- Constanze
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Dance |
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The artist is not a special kind of man, but every man is a special kind of artist.
- A.K. Coomaraswamy
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Visual Arts |
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Good choreography fuses eye, ear, and mind.
- Arlene Croce
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Dance |
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The only way to do it is to do it.
- Merce Cunningham
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Dance |
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Don’t be an art critic, but paint, there lies salvation.
- Paul Cézanne
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Visual Arts |
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Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations.
- Paul Cézanne
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Visual Arts |
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The color of the object illuminated partakes of the color of that which illuminates it.
- Leonardo Da Vinci
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Visual Arts |
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Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.
- Salvador Dali
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Visual Arts |
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You have to systematically create confusion, it sets creativity free.
- Salvador Dali
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Visual Arts |
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When I paint, the sea roars. The others splash about in the bath.
- Salvador Dali
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Visual Arts |
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People love mystery, and that is why they love my paintings.
- Salvador Dali
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Visual Arts |
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Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
- Salvador Dali
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Visual Arts |
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To give body and perfect form to your thought, this alone is what it is to be an artist.
- Jacques-Louis David
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Visual Arts |
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Do not fear mistakes, there are none.
- Miles Davis
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Music |
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The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
- Agnes De Mille
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Dance |
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Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.
- Edgar Degas
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Visual Arts |
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Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.
- Edgar Degas
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Visual Arts |
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This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.
- Charles Dickens
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Literary Arts |
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It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
- Walt Disney
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Media Arts |
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The high note is not the only thing.
- Placido Domingo
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Music |
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Dancing is the poetry of the foot.
- John Dryden
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Dance |