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The history of a people is found in its songs.
- George Jellinek
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A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.
- Eugene Ionesco
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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible, is music.
- Aldous Huxley
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Music |
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Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent.
- Victor Hugo
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The camera, if it’s lucky, may tell a different truth to drawing - but not a truer one.
- Robert Hughes
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Art is not a thing; it is a way.
- Elbert Hubbard
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Art is... a question mark in the minds of those who want to know what's happening.
- Aaron Howard
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If I could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.
- Edward Hopper
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Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist.
- Edward Hopper
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Talent! What they call talent is nothing but the capacity for doing continuous work in the right way.
- Winslow Homer
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Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
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A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
- Hans Hofmann
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The whole world, as we experience it visually, comes to us through the mystic realm of color.
- Hans Hofmann
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A work of art is a world in itself, reflecting senses and emotions of the artist’s world.
- Hans Hofman
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Style is something you can use, and you can be like a magpie, just taking what you want.
- David Hockney
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Life is short, art is long...
- Hippocrates
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Visual Arts |
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People who make music together cannot be enemies, at least while the music lasts.
- Paul Hindemith
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Music |
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Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes.
- Thomas Wentworth Higginson
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Nothing you write, if you hope to be any good, will ever come out as you first hoped.
- Lillian Hellman
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The greatest masterpieces were once only pigments on a palette.
- Henry S. Haskins
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Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought.
- E.Y. Harbug
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Music |
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All the sounds of the earth are like music.
- Oscar Hammerstein
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Music |
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A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges.
- Benny Green
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Music |
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Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same.
- Günter Grass
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I know only two tunes; one of them is "Yankee Doodle", and the other isn't.
- Ulysess S. Grant
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Music |
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No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time. It is just that the others are behind the time.
- Martha Graham
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Visual Arts |
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Dance is the hidden language of the soul.
- Martha Graham
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Dance |
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Great dancers are not great because of their technique; they are great because of their passion.
- Martha Graham
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The essence of drawing is the line exploring space.
- Andy Goldsworthy
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Visual Arts |
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Art is a part of the rebellion against the realities of its unfulfilled desire.
- Emma Goldman
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Visual Arts |
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Color in a picture is like enthusiasm in life.
- Vincent Van Gogh
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Visual Arts |
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The only time I feel alive is when I’m painting.
- Vincent Van Gogh
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Visual Arts |
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We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Visual Arts |
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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
- Paul Gauguin
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Visual Arts |
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The flat sound of my wooden clogs on the cobblestones, deep, hollow and powerful, is the note I seek in my painting.
- Paul Gauguin
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Visual Arts |
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I shut my eyes in order to see.
- Paul Gauguin
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Visual Arts |
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A painting is never finished - it simply stops in interesting places.
- Paul Gardner
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Visual Arts |
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If you are looking for something to be brave about consider fine arts.
- Robert Frost
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Visual Arts |
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To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
- Anatole France
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Visual Arts |
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Genius is another word for magic, and the whole point of magic is that it is inexplicable.
- Margot Fonteyn
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Theater |
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I do not want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.
- Carrie Fisher
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Theater |
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Dance is so important in the world. It needs no language. Our bodies speak a language of its own.
- Ibrahim Farrah
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Move your neck according to the music.
- Ethiopian Proverb
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Dance |
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Playing "bop" is like playing Scrabble with all the vowels missing.
- Duke Ellington
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Music |
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Music is my mistress, and she plays second fiddle to no one.
- Duke Ellington
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Music |
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Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
- Albert Einstein
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Visual Arts |
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It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
- Albert Einstein
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Visual Arts |
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If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.
- Albert Einstein
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The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious, the source of all art and science.
- Albert Einstein
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