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" When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination. "

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" Corporal punishment is as humiliating for him who gives it as for him who receives it; it is ineffective besides. Neither shame nor physical pain have any other effect than a hardening one. "

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" There have to be moments when you glimpse something decent, something life-affirming even in the most twisted character. That's where the real art lies. See, I always suspect characters who are painted as lovely, decent human beings. I would always question where the darkness lies. "

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" I cry out for order and find it only in art. "

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" Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary. "

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" It's an art to live with pain... mix the light into gray. "

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" Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal. "

Igor Stravinsky

" There are no contests in the Art of Peace. A true warrior is invincible because he or she contests with nothing. Defeat means to defeat the mind of contention that we harbor within. "

Morihei Ueshiba

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" Figure skating is a mixture of art and sport. "

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" A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession. "

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