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Jim Henson

"At the University of Maryland, my first year I started off planning to major in art because I was interested in theatre design, stage design or television design."

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"At the University of Maryland, my first year I started off planning to major in art because I was interested in theatre design, stage design or television design."

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"Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding."

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"History develops, art stands still."

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"To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job."

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"You do not need a boyfriend or a girlfriend to write an emotional poet, because poetry is beyond hooks and holes."

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"The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode."

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"Music heals all forms of misery."

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"Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable."

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"The play was a great success, but audience was a dismal failure."

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"The man can neither make, nor retain, one moment of time; it all comes to him by pure gift; he might as well regard the sun and moon as his chattels."

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"The business of art lies just in this, -- to make that understood and felt which, in the form of an argument, might be incomprehensible and inaccessible."

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"Well, Detroit Institute is kind of a key - probably the largest permanent collection of puppets in the US."
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"We thought it would be fun to try to design a show that would work well internationally and so that' s what we're intending to do with Fraggle Rock, and we are indeed now selling it around the world."
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"Actually the copies of characters is something I don't particularly like to talk about in articles but just for your information, most characters there's only one."
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"It's into the same bag as E.T. and Yoda, wherein you're trying to create something that people will actually believe, but it's not so much a symbol of the thing, but you're trying to do the thing itself."
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"If anything, there's a difference in working with color in England and the color in the US."
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"It has always been difficult to get Big Bird to be very pretty. Big Bird in England is much more gorgeous."
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"And also there wasn't much money in television in those days anyhow."
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"Life's like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending."
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"Yeah, we pretty much had a form and a shape by that time - a style - and I think one of the advantages of not having any relationship to any other puppeteer was that it gave me a reason to put those together myself for the needs of television."
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"The most sophisticated people I know - inside they are all children."
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