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" I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind. "

William Butler Yeats

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" To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect. "

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" Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers. "

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" Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on. "

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" I have trouble with modern art. But in general, all art forms fascinate me - art is the way human beings express what we can't say in words. "

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" Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse. "

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" The web of life is a beautiful and meaningless dance. The web of life is a process with a moving goal. The web of life is a perfectly finished work of art right where I am sitting now. "

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" I think music, in my opinion, is not about motivation in the way it's - it's not a running base. It's art. And my whole philosophy of music is different. It's almost like cooking and serving to people, seeing them smile and enjoying the food, really. "

" You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself. "

" Visual art and writing don't exist on an aesthetic hierarchy that positions one above the other, because each is capable of things the other can't do at all. Sometimes one picture is equal to 30 pages of discourse, just as there are things images are completely incapable of communicating. "

William S. Burroughs

" You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny, and hope that whatever your art is that you're putting out there, if it's received, great, I respect you for receiving it. If it's not received, great, I respect you for not. "

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" Once you attempt legislation upon religious grounds, you open the way for every kind of intolerance and religious persecution. "

William Butler Yeats

" The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart. "

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" Balance is key. Balance is a virtue. Balance is next to godliness, maybe. We should all aspire to better balance. Too much of what is said in this world is one-sided, and we need more balance - in our speech, in our music, in our art, in everything. "

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