"One way to cope with the provocations of novel art is to rest firm and maintain solid standards... set by the critic's long-practiced taste and by his conviction that only those innovations will be significant which promote the established direction of advanced art."

-- Leo Steinberg

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“Dance is the pure language of the soul - it's been with us from the very beginning.”
“The equality that we are all entitled to, as citizens of this democracy, can't be avoided by some religious dogma of a President who's is supposed to believe in the notion of separation of church and state. And he frankly doesn't.”
“Where now is Britain? . Even as the savage sits upon the stone That marks were stood her capitols, and hears The bittern booming in the weeds, he shrinks From the dismaying solitude.”

Source : Samuel Rogers, Thomas Campbell, James Montgomery, Charles Lamb, Henry Kirke White (1841). “The Poetical Works of Rogers, Campbell, J. Montgomery, Lamb, and Kirke White”, p.490
“I see things that nobody else sees”
“When jazz is played in another nation, it is called American. When it is played in another country, it sounds false. Jazz is the result of the energy stored up in America.”

Source : Quoted in D Morgenstern Composers on Music (1958).
“We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from.”
“Don't you stupid Aussies get it? Australia is doomed! Nothing, and nobody, can help you. You have sinned willfully after you have received knowledge of the truth.”

Source : "God Hates Australia". WBC Video News, February 12, 2009.
“Stage is really hard work. You've got to do it every night. Not like doing it once and walking away.”

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