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"People of art should never get married and have children, because it's a selfish experience."
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"Poetry most often communicates emotions, not directly, but by creating imaginatively the grounds for those emotions. It therefore communicates something more than the emotion; only by means of that something more does it communicate the emotion at all."

"We often forget to draw a new picture because we are so busy criticizing other paintings."

"A beautiful poem is nothing but a mirror of philosophy through which we can see life's pure beauty."

"Poets create a beautiful blue sky where you can fly with wings of imagination and find yourself again and again."

"The object of art is to enhance the beauty, imaginations and joy of life."

"A picture may be worth a thousand words, but those well-arranged words are worth a multi-million-dollar motion picture."

"Literature tries to express the intricate inner beauties of life. Philosophy tries to explain the intricate inner beauties and conflicts of thoughts."
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"Every ballet, whether or not successful artistically or with the public, has given me something important."

"To achieve some depth in your field requires a lot of sacrifices. Want to or not, you're thinking about what you're doing in life-in my case, dancing."

"I go a lot to see young people downtown in little theaters. It's great. If you start somebody's career, it's so exciting."

"I have some Russian friends. But probably only 10 percent. I don't hang out usually in the big Russian communities in Brooklyn and New Jersey."

"The Russian people get so insanely close to each other as friends. Their lives are interrelated so much on an everyday basis."

"I think art education, especially in this country, which government pretty much ignores, is so important for young people."

"You cannot be happy with your family while being personally unhappy with your work. It's a Catch-22 kind of thing."
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