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We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.
- Sir Winston Churchill
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How inimitably graceful children are in general -- before they learn to dance.
- S.T. Coleridge
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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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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.
- Pat Conroy
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Dancing is like dreaming with your feet.
- Constanze
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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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Good choreography fuses eye, ear, and mind.
- Arlene Croce
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The only way to do it is to do it.
- Merce Cunningham
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Don’t be an art critic, but paint, there lies salvation.
- Paul Cézanne
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Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations.
- Paul Cézanne
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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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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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You have to systematically create confusion, it sets creativity free.
- Salvador Dali
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When I paint, the sea roars. The others splash about in the bath.
- Salvador Dali
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People love mystery, and that is why they love my paintings.
- Salvador Dali
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Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
- Salvador Dali
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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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Do not fear mistakes, there are none.
- Miles Davis
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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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Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.
- Edgar Degas
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Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.
- Edgar Degas
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This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.
- Charles Dickens
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It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
- Walt Disney
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The high note is not the only thing.
- Placido Domingo
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Dancing is the poetry of the foot.
- John Dryden
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Great ideas originate in the muscles.
- Thomas Edison
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Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
- Albert Einstein
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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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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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Playing "bop" is like playing Scrabble with all the vowels missing.
- Duke Ellington
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Music is my mistress, and she plays second fiddle to no one.
- Duke Ellington
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Move your neck according to the music.
- Ethiopian Proverb
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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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I do not want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.
- Carrie Fisher
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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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To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
- Anatole France
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If you are looking for something to be brave about consider fine arts.
- Robert Frost
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A painting is never finished - it simply stops in interesting places.
- Paul Gardner
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Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
- Paul Gauguin
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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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I shut my eyes in order to see.
- Paul Gauguin
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We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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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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Color in a picture is like enthusiasm in life.
- Vincent Van Gogh
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The only time I feel alive is when I’m painting.
- Vincent Van Gogh
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Art is a part of the rebellion against the realities of its unfulfilled desire.
- Emma Goldman
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The essence of drawing is the line exploring space.
- Andy Goldsworthy
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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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Dance is the hidden language of the soul.
- Martha Graham
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