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Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.

- Twyla Tharp

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Print Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.
- Frank Zappa 		Music
Print You can't make an architect. But you can open the doors and windows toward the light as you see it.
- Frank Lloyd Wright 		Visual Arts
Print Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.
- Dame Rebecca West 		Literary Arts
Print Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
- Simone Weil 		Literary Arts
Print My instinct about painting says, 'if you don't think about it, it's right.'
- Andy Warhol 		Visual Arts
Print An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.
- James McNeill Whistler 		Visual Arts
Print No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did he would cease to be an artist.
- Oscar Wilde 		Literary Arts
Print The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it immensely. All art is useless.
- Oscar Wilde 		Theater
Print Strong and convincing art has never risen from theories.
- Mary Wigman 		Dance
Print It’s all a big game of construction, some with a brush, some with a shovel, some choose a pen.
- Jackson Pollock 		Visual Arts
Print The painting has a life of its own.
- Jackson Pollock 		Visual Arts
Print Music, to create harmony, must investigate discord.
- Plutarch 		Music
Print The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
- Marcel Proust 		Visual Arts
Print Practice what you know, and it will help to make clear what now you do not know.
- Rembrandt 		Visual Arts
Print The artist's job is to be a witness to his time in history.
- Robert Rauschenberg 		Visual Arts
Print There is geometry in the humming of the strings. There is music in the spacing of the spheres.
- Pythagoras 		Music
Print Why do you try to understand art? Do you try to understand the song of a bird?
- Pablo Picasso 		Visual Arts
Print Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.
- Pablo Picasso 		Visual Arts
Print Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
- Pablo Picasso 		Visual Arts
Print Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.
- Pablo Picasso 		Visual Arts
Print To sing well and to dance well is to be well-educated.
- Plato 		Music
Print Nature does many things the way I do, but she hides them!
- Pablo Picasso 		Visual Arts
Print For a long time I limited myself to one color... as a form of discipline.
- Pablo Picasso 		Visual Arts
Print Music contains a whole gamut of experience, from sensuous elements to ultimate intellectual harmonies.
- George Santayana 		Music
Print Music rearranges your molecular structure.
- Carlos Santana 		Music
Print Simplicity is the essence of the great, the true, and the beautiful in art.
- George Sand 		Visual Arts
Print To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.
- Robert Schumann 		Music
Print Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.
- William Shakespeare 		Theater
Print Music goes deeper than emotion into the energies that animate our psychic life.
- Roger Sessions 		Music
Print There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.
- Albert Schweitzer 		Music
Print I was probably born with the ability to draw, but that does not make you an artist.
- James Rosenquist 		Visual Arts
Print Anyone who says you can't see a thought simply doesn't know art.
- Wynetka Ann Reynolds 		Theater
Print A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts.
- Joshua Reynolds 		Visual Arts
Print Collecting art is like a drug. It is both intensely pleasurable and highly addictive.
- Norman Rosenthal 		Visual Arts
Print Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.
- George Sand 		Visual Arts
Print Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it, we go nowhere.
- Carl Sagan 		Visual Arts
Print When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
- John Ruskin 		Visual Arts
Print A work of art is a world in itself, reflecting senses and emotions of the artist’s world.
- Hans Hofman 		Visual Arts
Print Study Bach. There you will find everything.
- Johannes Brahms 		Music
Print When I dance, I cannot judge, I cannot hate, I cannot separate myself from life.
- Hans Bos 		Dance
Print Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.
- Leonard Bernstein 		Music
Print Architecture is inhabited sculpture.
- Constantin Brancusi 		Visual Arts
Print Dance can give the inarticulate a voice.
- Pamela Brown 		Dance
Print A child sings before it speaks, dances almost before it walks, music is with us from the beginning.
- Pamela Brown 		Music
Print Composing is like driving down a foggy road...
- Benjamin Britten 		Music
Print Dance first. Think later. It's the natural order.
- Samuel Beckett 		Dance
Print There are shortcuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them.
- Viki Baum 		Dance
Print Patience is an integral part of talent.
- Vicki Baum 		Literary Arts
Print Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
- Henry Ward Beecher 		Visual Arts
Print If you really believe music is dangerous, you should let it go in one ear and out the other.
- José Bergamín 		Music
Print Imagination has always had powers of resurrection that no science can match.
- Ingrid Bengis 		Visual Arts
Print Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess.
- Ludwig Van Beethoven 		Music
Print Where words fail, music speaks.
- Hans Christian Andersen 		Music
Print Nothing is more beautiful than a guitar, except, possibly, two.
- Fredric Chopin 		Music
Print Ladanse,c'est le mouvement,et le mouvement, c'est la vie.
Dance is movement, and movement is life.
- Ludmilla Chiriaeff 		Dance
Print We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.
- Sir Winston Churchill 		Visual Arts
Print Without music, life is a journey through a desert.
- Pat Conroy 		Music
Print Let a man be stimulated by poetry, established by the rules of propriety, and perfected by music.
- Confucius 		Music
Print How inimitably graceful children are in general -- before they learn to dance.
- S.T. Coleridge 		Dance
Print On with the dance! Let joy be unconfined.
- Lord Byron 		Dance
Print In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton 		Visual Arts
Print Dance every performance as if it were your last.
- Erik Bruhn 		Dance
Print Learning is an active process. We learn by doing.
- Dale Carnegie 		Visual Arts
Print Music to me is like breathing - I don't get tired of breathing, I don't get tired of music.
- Ray Charles 		Music
Print Don’t be an art critic, but paint, there lies salvation.
- Paul Cézanne 		Visual Arts
Print Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations.
- Paul Cézanne 		Visual Arts
Print Any museum can invite you to look. A great one changes the way you see.
- Anonymous 		Visual Arts
Print Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did, backwards and on high heels.
- Anonymous 		Dance
Print Anyone who says sunshine brings happiness has never danced in the rain.
- Anonymous 		Dance
Print Dance isn't something that can be explained in words; it has to be danced.
- Paige Arden 		Dance
Print Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother’s womb.
- Jean Arp 		Visual Arts
Print What we play is life.
- Louis Armstrong 		Music
Print The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
- Aristotle 		Visual Arts
Print Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
- Scott Adams 		Visual Arts
Print In life as in the dance: Grace glides on blistered feet.
- Alice Abrams 		Dance
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