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Vincente Minnelli

"In the Thirties, when I was in New York, I did the first surrealistic ballet in a show of mine."

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"In the Thirties, when I was in New York, I did the first surrealistic ballet in a show of mine."

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"The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means."

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