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The only way to do it is to do it.

- Merce Cunningham

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Print Drama is like a dream, it is not real, but it is really felt.
- Abhinavagupta 		Theater
Print Good art is not what it looks like, but what it does to us.
- Roy Adzak 		Visual Arts
Print Countless unseen details are often the only difference between mediocre and magnificent.
- Anonymous 		Visual Arts
Print Art is the imagination expressed through the senses.
- Anonymous 		Visual Arts
Print Everything in the universe has rhythm. Everything dances.
- Maya Angelou 		Dance
Print First comes the sweat. Then comes the beauty if you're very lucky and have said your prayers.
- George Balanchine 		Dance
Print I don't want people who want to dance, I want people who have to dance.
- George Balanchine 		Dance
Print Dance is music made visible.
- George Balanchine 		Dance
Print A nation creates music - the composer only arranges it.
- Bela Bartok 		Music
Print Genius is childhood recalled at will.
- Charles Baudelaire 		Visual Arts
Print Dancing can reveal all the mystery that music conceals.
- Charles Baudelaire 		Dance
Print The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.
- Mikhail Baryshnikov 		Visual Arts
Print Dance till the stars come down from the rafters. Dance, Dance, Dance till you drop.
- W.H. Auden 		Dance
Print I just dance. I just put my feet in the air and move them around.
- Fred Astaire 		Dance
Print I believe that interpretation should be like a transparent glass, a window for the composer's music.
- Vladimir Ashkenazy 		Music
Print Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
- Berthold Auerbach 		Music
Print The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
- Sir Francis Bacon 		Visual Arts
Print Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself.
- Marcus Aurelius 		Visual Arts
Print There is always music amongst the trees in the garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it.
- M. Aumonier 		Music
Print Dancing is like dreaming with your feet.
- Constanze 		Dance
Print Color in a picture is like enthusiasm in life.
- Vincent Van Gogh 		Visual Arts
Print We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 		Visual Arts
Print Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 		Literary Arts
Print The only time I feel alive is when I’m painting.
- Vincent Van Gogh 		Visual Arts
Print No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time. It is just that the others are behind the time.
- Martha Graham 		Visual Arts
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