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"Poetry is an art that uses words to paint vivid pictures of perceptions and emotions."

"Be an artist in everything you do."

"The artist is an educator of artists of the future who are able to understand and in the process of understanding perform unexpected - the best - evolutions."

"Art is a relection of the mind and a vision of the heart."

"She lives in the poetry she cannot write."

"Art is the reflection of an imaginative mind."
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"As a designer, you have to solve a lot of problems. Even though people are wearing clothes that are supposed to look beautiful, they'll have to do all kinds of things."

"If you want someone to feel warm, you dress them in a warm color and put a warm light on them and you get the picture. Sometimes, all that needs pushing a little bit to help tell the story."

"I'd seen the current stage production and the 1975 production of Chicago. I liked them both very much, but I didn't use them necessarily as inspiration."

"Each simian had a much different body suit, so besides trying to define class across species, there was a definite attempt to dress each group in different styles."

"Some of the kimonos took as long as four to five months to make, with all the layers that go into it."

"Planet of the Apes was a gigantic challenge, making the clothes work so people could do stunts and action in the clothes. I really learned a lot about that in that movie."

"The designs were based on quite a lot of research of what a movie musical is, filtered through the eyes of today. If we'd gone strictly with the '20s, the movement would have been impaired."

"Costumes are the first impression that you have of the character before they open their mouth-it really does establish who they are."
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