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To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking.
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Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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Dancing is such a despised and dishonored trade that if you tell a doctor or a laywer you do choreography he'll look at you as if you were a hummingbird. Dancers don't get invited to visit people. It is assumed a boy dancer will run off with the spoons and a girl with the head of the house.
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An artist’s job is to captivate… if we stumble into truth, we got lucky.
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Now almost every artist outside of New York is connected with some school or some museum school, and even in New York the majority are. That's an interesting fact when you take the idea of making money, making a living selling paintings. Only a dozen or two painters do that.
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An artist who dedicates his life to art, burdens his art with his life, and his life with his art.
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Painting cannot be the only activity of a mature artist.
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We're enamored with the concept that there's always a price. But sometimes, your goal is to build a great company, not sell it.
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The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments.
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The goal of a great democracy should be fulfillment, not ease. It should be adequacy, not serenity.
