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"Poetry is an art that uses words to paint vivid pictures of perceptions and emotions."

"Be an artist in everything you do."

"Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts."

"The artist is an educator of artists of the future who are able to understand and in the process of understanding perform unexpected - the best - evolutions."

"To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest; we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song."

"Art is a relection of the mind and a vision of the heart."
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"I see little of more importance to the future of our country and of civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist. If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him."

"Citizen Kane is perhaps the one American talking picture that seems as fresh now as the day it opened. It may seem even fresher."

"It seems likely that many of the young who don't wait for others to call them artists, but simply announce that they are, don't have the patience to make art."

"Kevin Costner has feathers in his hair and feathers in his head. The Indians should have called him 'Plays with Camera.'"

"Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open."
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