"I started out to be a painter and was born into the theater."

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"For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art."

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American Poet

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"Music awaken our soul."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Art, Music, Awaken, Soul, Spirit

"Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment."

Claude Monet, French Artist

Art, Day, Joy, Obsession

"One writes music because winter is eternal and because, if one didn't, the wolves and blizzards will be at one's throat all the sooner."

David Mitchell, British Novelist

Art, Music, Winter, Nature

"You put butterflies back into my soul and painted their wings with passion and poetry."

Melody Lee, American Poet

Art, Love, Creativity, Inspirational, Passion

"No nude, however abstract, should fail to arouse in the spectator some vestige of erotic feeling, even if it be only the faintest shadow - and if it does not do so it is bad art and false morals."

Kenneth Clark, British Author

Art, Feeling, Morals, Shadow

"Whether I get adequate attention or not, people here do know the work I have been doing systematically and without compromise for over 40 years. I get tired of people making excuses for guys who don't continue the art because they can't make a living."

Bill Dixon, American Musician

Art, Work, People, Attention

"By the time we got to MGM, and Lions Gate the movie was done there was nothing else to say. It was done. Just as at Universal, it was art by committee."

Rob Zombie, American Musician

Art, Time, Committee, Nothing

"Be a good editor. The Universe needs more good editors, God knows."

Kurt Vonnegut, American Author

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"Not everyone who loves music can play the tune."

Nora Roberts, American Author

Art, Music, Talent, Skill, Perception

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"West Side Story was terribly important because of the style of the dancing and the gangs of New York."

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"I had given up the theater and everything propelled me into entertainment. And I didn't resist it."

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"American films are terribly popular all over the world and American movie stars are terribly important. I don't know why."

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"I always have coffee without sugar, you know. Just cream."

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"If anybody reads a story in a magazine or book, different pictures compete in their minds."

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"That's what I think musicals will come to. No backstage stories, nothing of that sort."

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"I allow an area for improvisation because the chemical things actors bring to stories make it not work."

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"For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art."

"Music awaken our soul."

"Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment."

"One writes music because winter is eternal and because, if one didn't, the wolves and blizzards will be at one's throat all the sooner."

"You put butterflies back into my soul and painted their wings with passion and poetry."

"No nude, however abstract, should fail to arouse in the spectator some vestige of erotic feeling, even if it be only the faintest shadow - and if it does not do so it is bad art and false morals."

"Whether I get adequate attention or not, people here do know the work I have been doing systematically and without compromise for over 40 years. I get tired of people making excuses for guys who don't continue the art because they can't make a living."

"By the time we got to MGM, and Lions Gate the movie was done there was nothing else to say. It was done. Just as at Universal, it was art by committee."

"Be a good editor. The Universe needs more good editors, God knows."

"Not everyone who loves music can play the tune."

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"West Side Story was terribly important because of the style of the dancing and the gangs of New York."

"I had given up the theater and everything propelled me into entertainment. And I didn't resist it."

"American films are terribly popular all over the world and American movie stars are terribly important. I don't know why."

"I always have coffee without sugar, you know. Just cream."

"If anybody reads a story in a magazine or book, different pictures compete in their minds."

"That's what I think musicals will come to. No backstage stories, nothing of that sort."

"But surrealism is present in most of my pictures."

"I learn new things all the time."

"I've worked with an awful lot of people. Katy Hepburn, Spencer Tracy."

"I allow an area for improvisation because the chemical things actors bring to stories make it not work."