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Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos. - Steph

Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos. – Stephen Sondheim

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Musicals are, by nature, theatrical, meaning poetic, meaning having to move the audiences imagination and create a suspension of disbelief, by which I mean theres no fourth wall. – Stephen Sondheim

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Imagination
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Stephen Sondheim
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All the best performers bring to their role something more, something different than what the author put on paper. Thats what makes theatre live. Thats why it persists. – Stephen Sondheim

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best
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It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found. – Wilson Mizner

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Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness. The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is. – Willa Cather, The Song of the Lark, 1915

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A portrait has one advantage over its original: it is unconscious; and you may therefore admire without insulting it. I have seen portraits which have more. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth. – John Ruskin

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Of the demonstrably wise there are but two: those who commit suicide, and those who keep their reasoning faculties atrophied by drink. – Mark Twain, Note-Book, 1935

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They have hijacked my religion. – Cat Stevens

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On J-Day our profession will have a lot to answer for! We might at least have withheld our hands instead of making them work against God. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

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I have found little that is good about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think. – Sigmund Freud

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