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Art is the only way to run away without leaving home. - Twyla Thar

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home. – Twyla Tharp

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Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism. – Twyla Tharp

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Experience
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My mother was the first woman in the county in Indiana where we were born, in Jay County, to have a college degree. She was educated as a pianist and she wanted to concertize, but when the war came she was married, had a family, so she started teaching. – Twyla Tharp

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Family
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When my daughter was about seven years old, she asked me one day what I did at work. I told her I worked at the college — that my job was to teach people how to draw. She stared at me, incredulous, and said, “You mean they forget?” – Howard Ikemoto

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Art

Good art provides people with a vocabulary about things they cant articulate. – Mos Def

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Art

The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind. – David Herbert Lawrence

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Art

Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God. – Martin Luther

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Art

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Books want to be born: I never make them. They come to me and insist on being written, and on being such and such. – Samuel Butler

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Video games and computers have become babysitters for kids. – Taylor Kitsch

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Years ago nobody was elected on the economic ticket. It was either the education platform, or it was health or it was other issues. It is only recently that economic values have superceded every other human value. – Anita Roddick

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The recognition of the art that informs all pure science need not mean the abandonment for it of all present art, rather it will mean the completion of the transformation of art that has already begun. – John Desmond Bernal

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