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" In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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" A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual. "

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" Do activities you're passionate about - which make your heart and soul feel perky - including things like working out, cooking, painting, writing, yoga, hiking, walking, swimming, being in nature, being around art, or reading inspiring books. "

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" I don't think we live in those times when great art comes out of great adversity. "

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" Every man lives in two realms: the internal and the external. The internal is that realm of spiritual ends expressed in art, literature, morals, and religion. The external is that complex of devices, techniques, mechanisms, and instrumentalities by means of which we live. "

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

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" Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret. "

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" Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none. "

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" Making sushi is an art, and experience is everything. "

" My art is an attempt to reach beyond the surface appearance. I want to see growth in wood, time in stone, nature in a city, and I do not mean its parks but a deeper understanding that a city is nature too-the ground upon which it is built, the stone with which it is made. "

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

" People think that computer science is the art of geniuses but the actual reality is the opposite, just many people doing things that build on eachother, like a wall of mini stones. "

" All art is but imitation of nature. "

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" The world is a slightly better place for having improvisation in it than it was before. There's something about it that says something positive about the human spirit, that a bunch of people can get together and by following a few simple traffic rules can create art and can entertain an audience and can thrill and exalt each other. "

" For me, pop culture is very fluid: it's music, it's movies, it's books, it's art, it's tech, it's so many things - and as marketing and brand advocates, we should be able to to take products and services and match them to what's happening in pop culture. "

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" For me, art is about learning and about living with people. It's alive. "

" The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river which may sometimes flow so near to the surface that the laughing picnic parties are heard above. "

" O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught. "

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" A race is a work of art that people can look at and be affected in as many ways they're capable of understanding. "

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

" We are wiser than we know. "

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" Men are what their mothers made them. "

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" I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service.' "

Friedrich Nietzsche

" Excellent teachers showered on to us like meteors: Biology teachers holding up human brains, English teachers inspiring us with a personal ideological fierceness about Tolstoy and Plato, Art teachers leading us through the slums of Boston, then back to the easel to hurl public school gouache with social awareness and fury. "

" We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body. "

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" Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty. "

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" It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. "

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" Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. "

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