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"Art is the only way to run away without leaving home."
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"Poetry has its own unique language which every mind translates differently according to their own personal view."
"Poetry happens when there is nothing to say but you have a volcano hidden inside you waiting to erupt."
"Filmmaking is not the work of the weak-minded. It may not be rocket science, but it requires ten times more strength of the mind than that."
"Poetry is the truth dressed up with perceptions, emotions, and anxieties of expression."
"I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his "divine service.""
"Painting a picture is writing a poem with paint."
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"My mother was a dominant force in my life. She had a very specific idea about education, which was: you should know everything about everything. It was quite simple. There was no exclusivity, and there really was no judgment."
"In terms of individuals who actually inspired me, very few of the academic people that I had access to had that power over me. Maybe it's simply because I wasn't that committed to geometry."
"There's this expression called postmodernism, which is kind of silly, and destroys a perfectly good word called modern, which now no longer means anything."
"I think people want very much to simplify their lives enough so that they can control the things that make it possible to sleep at night."
"I'm not one who divides music, dance or art into various categories. Either something works, or it doesn't."
"I learned very early that an audience would relax and look at things differently if they felt they could laugh with you from time to time. There's an energy that comes through the release of tension that is laughter."
"With each piece I've completed I have worked to make it intact, and each of them has been an equal high. It's like children. A mother refuses to pick out one as a favorite, and I can't do any better with the dances."
"I don't mean this, but I'm going to say it anyway. I don't really think of pop art and serious art as being that far apart."
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