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An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.

- James McNeill Whistler

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Print We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.
- Sir Winston Churchill
Visual Arts
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 Music to me is like breathing - I don't get tired of breathing, I don't get tired of music.
- Ray Charles
Music
Print Learning is an active process. We learn by doing.
- Dale Carnegie
Visual Arts
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 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 Architecture is inhabited sculpture.
- Constantin Brancusi
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 If you really beleive 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 Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Visual Arts
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 Genius is childhood recalled at will.
- Charles Baudelaire
Visual Arts
Print Dancing can reveal all the mystery that music conceals.
- Charles Baudelaire
Dance
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