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" Cleanliness is the scourge of art. "

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" My philosophy is that I'm an artist. I perform an art not with a paint brush or a camera. I perform with bodily movement. Instead of exhibiting my art in a museum or a book or on canvas, I exhibit my art in front of the multitudes. "

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" Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy. "

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" To create a work of art is to create the world. "

Wassily Kandinsky

" The most momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil. "

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" Art is man's expression of his joy in labor. "

Henry Kissinger

" The art of living well and the art of dying well are one. "

" An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world. "

George Santayana

" I'm happy to be a writer - of prose, poetry, every kind of writing. Every person in the world who isn't a recluse, hermit or mute uses words. I know of no other art form that we always use. "

" To be creative means to connect. It's to abolish the gap between the body, the mind and the soul, between science and art, between fiction and nonfiction. "

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" It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself. "

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

" I believe that art can make relevant and progressive contributions to culture and society. "

" Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it. "

" Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality. "

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" Like many men, I am highly skilled in the art of losing things but prefer to outsource the recovery process. "

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" It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work. "

" Ballet is an incredibly difficult, beautiful art form that takes a lot of training, a lot of time, and a lot of hard work. "

" I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being. "

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" You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul. "

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" I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few. "

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" Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding. "

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