"The height of artistic skill is to know how to conceal the mechanical effort and strain beneath harmonious calm."

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Source : August Bournonville (1979). “My theatre life”, Wesleyan

August Bournonville

#Dance Quotes #Skills Quotes #Effort Quotes

“Curiosity is a great antidote to fear.”

Source : "Meredith Monk's Voice". "On Being" with Krista Tippett, onbeing.org. February 16, 2012.
“Back in middle school, Catherine and I had gone through this stage where all we would read were fantasy books. We'd consume them like M&M's, by the fistful, J.R.R. Tolkien and Terry Brooks and Susan Cooper and Lloyd Alexander. Susan Boone looked, to me, like the queen of the elves (there's almost always an elf queen in fantasy books). I mean, she was shorter than me and had on a strange lineny outfit in pale blues and greens....”
“Leave him alone!" Debbie shouted. "Shut up, please, or I'll kill you," Mr Tiny replied.”
“All attempts at law, all religion, all ethical norms might be nothing more than attempts by the weak to restrain the strong. Then, within the law, arise the new strong, who subvert the law for their own ends of power and family interest, leaving the old strong outside their circle to pursue the waiting possibilities which they call crime. The weak, the cowardly, the decent ones, live between these groups.”

Source : George Zebrowski (2014). “Brute Orbits”, p.81, Open Road Media
“Calmly in the precious present, be a light for love and wisdom in the window on your world.”
“Perhaps Fate laid out your life for you like a dress on a bed, and you could either wear it or go naked.”
“I'd love to play Carmen - it's the perfect mezzo role.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The edge of a painting is its frontier... where the artist negotiates his boundaries with the real world... where art begins and ends and where the eye enters and leaves the image. It determines, in an infinitely subtle number of ways, how you read a painting - which, unlike a book or a piece of music, has no pre-determined beginning or end.”

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