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

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Integrity is the recognition of the fact that you cannot fake your consciousness, just as honesty is the recognition of the fact that you cannot fake ...more

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That which you call your soul or spirit is your consciousness, and that which you call ‘free will’ is your mind’s freedom to think or not, the only wi...more

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Existence is Identity, Consciousness is Identification.

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Whatever the degree of your knowledge, these two—existence and consciousness—are axioms you cannot escape, these two are the irreducible primaries imp...more

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Now observe that in all the propaganda of the ecologists—amidst all their appeals to nature and pleas for “harmony with nature”—there is no discussion...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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Keating stood still, because he understood for the first time what it was that artists spoke about when they spoke of beauty.

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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