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"Let your first enemy be mediocrity; it has no role to play, no word to say and no action to display in your life. Never love to swim in shallow waters; they breed nothing than fearful reptiles of failure!"

"Everybody is standing, but you must stand out.Everybody is breaking grounds; but you must breakthrough!Everybody scratching it; but you must scratch it hard!Everybody is going, but you must keep going extra miles!Dare to be exceptionally excellent and why not?"

"A servant who serves excellently from his whole heart with due courage and humility is never a servant, but a master of his work!"

"Those who believe in quality produce quality goods."

"Remember, each of us needs to be the best in our field."

"As Aristotle said, 'Excellence is a habit.' I would say furthermore that excellence is made constant through the feeling that comes right after one has completed a work which he himself finds undeniably awe-inspiring. He only wants to relax until he's ready to renew such a feeling all over again because to him, all else has become absolutely trivial."

"Each person you admire is simply a reminder of your own latent excellence, your own unacknowledged beauty."

"Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several he will fail to achieve distinction in any."

"Art needs no victory because it is already the victory of the meticulous mind!"

"Excellence is a habit acquired by continuous improvement on the little things you do with a firm belief that it's going to be better than before!"
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"All I want to do is make sure that art is available to all Americans in a participatory way, whether you engage in the art process yourself or you're an audience member."

"I don't know how one actually would define obscenity. I'm sure the definition is different according to the age one is living in."

"Now, I cannot approve anything the council has rejected, but I can reject anything the council has approved."

"I began to think, The endowment has had a bad reputation in the last few years, and that's unfair."

"Senator Helms might very well do that. I would point out to him that we in the art world are not necessarily in the business of making controversial art."
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