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"Does any art have a practical value? People love to talk about how expensive a painting is. That's the only way we can talk about paintings in this century."
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"The man can neither make, nor retain, one moment of time; it all comes to him by pure gift; he might as well regard the sun and moon as his chattels."
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"Does the New York City Ballet affect other places? Yeah, it lets people know they should come to New York."
"The life of a dancer is tragically short. What is remarkable about the New York City Ballet is that it makes us forget that. Because it keeps the ballet alive."
"The New York City Ballet is always about the realm of possibilities, the realm of what the human body can do, what the human spirit can do. And it's about listening, it's about listening to remarkable music and how we respond to that."
"I mean New York City is the financial capital of the world. It's where all the money passes through, the Dow Jones, whatever, that's where all the money goes."
"People go to see beautiful paintings to see how much they cost. Wow. The practical value is that it shows you what the human spirit can do."
"What we're dealt with hopefully is two arms, two eyes, two legs, a head, a heart. The variations, the extensions, the possibilities of the human body, what that can do."
"We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished-for state. When did history become a bad word?"
"And it is always Easter Sunday at the New York City Ballet. It is always coming back to life. Not even coming back to life - it lives in the constant present."
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