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You love your work. God help you, you love it! And thats the curse. That's the brand on your forehead for all of them to see. You love it and they kno...more

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It [ballet] projects a fragile kind of strength and a certain inflexible precision.

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A young woman stood before the railing, speaking to the reception clerk. Her slender body seemed out of all scale in relation to a normal human body; ...more

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Beauty is a sense of harmony.

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An artist reveals his naked soul in his work - and so, gentle reader, do you when you respond to it.

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Art is inextricably tied to man's survival - not to his physical survival, but to that on which his physical survival depends: to the preservation and...more

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Their eyes were dark and hard and glowing, with no fear in them, no kindness and no guilt.

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For our face and body were beautiful. Our face was not like the faces of our brothers, for we felt not pity when looking upon it. Our body was not lik...more

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Now take a human body. Why wouldn't you like to see a human body with a curling tail with a crest of ostrich feathers at the end? And with ears shaped...more

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What in hell are you really made of, Howard? After all, it's only a building. It's not the combination of holy sacrament, Indian torture, and sexual e...more

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Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artists metaphysical value judgments.

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The dance is the silent partner of music and participates in a division of labor: music presents a stylized version of man’s consciousness in action—t...more

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There are two aspects of man’s existence which are the special province and expression of his sense of life: love and art.I am referring here to roman...more

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The writer who develops a beautiful style, but has nothing to say, represents a kind of arrested esthetic development; he is like a pianist who acquir...more

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A cardinal principle of good fiction [is]: the theme and the plot of a novel must be integrated—as thoroughly integrated as mind and body or thought a...more