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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 good novel is an indivisible sum: every scene, sequence and passage of a good novel has to involve, contribute to and advance all three of its major...more

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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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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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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

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In art, and in literature, the end and the means, or the subject and the style, must be worthy of each other.That which is not worth contemplating in ...more

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A gracefully effortless floating, flowing and flying are the essentials of the ballet’s image of man.

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It [ballet] is a perfect medium for the expression of spiritual love.