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Robert Redford

"It's an honor putting art above politics. Politics can be seductive in terms of things reductive to the soul."

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"It's an honor putting art above politics. Politics can be seductive in terms of things reductive to the soul."

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"Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art."

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"The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science."

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"I see my life in terms of music."

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"Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding."

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"It is impossible to give a clear account of the world, but art can teach us to reproduce it-just as the world reproduces itself in the course of its eternal gyrations. The primordial sea indefatigably repeats the same words and casts up the same astonished beings on the same sea-shore."

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"Few artists thrive in solitude and nothing is more stimulating than the conflict of minds with similar interests."

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"Beethoven tells you what it's like to be Beethoven and Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. Bach tells you what it's like to be the universe."

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"She dotes on poetry, sir. She adores it; I may say that her whole soul and mind are wound up, and entwined with it. She has produced some delightful pieces, herself, sir. You may have met with her 'Ode to an Expiring Frog,' sir."

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"The truth is not that we need the critics in order to enjoy the authors, but that we need the authors in order to enjoy the critics."

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"The crushed teapot in the rubbish of the bulldozed house will sing in your ears forever."

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"Never revisit the past, that's dangerous. You know, move on."
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"Usually I like to improvise. Sometimes, depending on the nature of the piece, I like to improvise because I think it brings certain freshness and a reality to it, as long as it doesn't go too far out of the box."
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"Generally speaking, I went through that. I came to a place where I realised what true value was. It wasn't money. Money is a means to achieving an end, but it's not the end."
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"I believe in mythology. I guess I share Joseph Campbell's notion that a culture or society without mythology would die, and we're close to that."
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"He's meant to be that classic Homer, Ulysses, Hercules - a character who goes out or has some gift of some kind. He goes on a journey of discovery and part of that is falling into darkness - the temptations of life."
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"We program the festival, after 20 years, exactly the way we did on the first day."
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"I don't know what your childhood was like, but we didn't have much money. We'd go to a movie on a Saturday night, then on Wednesday night my parents would walk us over to the library. It was such a big deal, to go in and get my own book."
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