"The principal rule of art is to please and to move. All the other rules were created to achieve this first one."

-- Jean Racine

#Art Quotes #Moving Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“Music is the only thing in this world, with the exception of sneezing and looking at the sunset, that takes you to a place that's above the mundane. Everything else is just bullshit.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“With the press there is no "off the record.”
“Once you understand that someone has Tourette and that they can't help their tics, it takes away the distraction. And you can engage your compassion. You feel for them. You embrace them.”
“This was a new recognition that perfection is admirable but a trifle inhuman, and that a stumbling kind of semi-success can be much more warming. Most of all, perhaps, these exultant yells for the Mets were also yells for ourselves, and came from a wry, half-understood recognition that there is more Met than Yankee in every one of us. I knew for whom that foghorn blew; it blew for me.”
“Baroque sculpture and interior design has a quality of creating an environment that seems organic because it's full of curves and details, like a forest.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“The need to be a great artist makes it hard to be an artist. The need to produce a great work of art makes it hard to produce any art at all.”
“We ask for forgiveness. And we forgive others who ask us. In that way we can experience healing, healing in our souls.”
“I went to the Paradise Restaurant on 49th Street and Broadway which was where they were playing, and I sat in.”

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