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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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"The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place. It is the place people come to see the truth about life and the social situation."

"The actor has to develop his body. The actor has to work on his voice. But the most important thing the actor has to work on is his mind."

"The ideas of the great playwrights are almost always larger than the experiences of even the best actors."

"When you stand on the stage you must have a sense that you are addressing the whole world, and that what you say is so important the whole world must listen."

"The actor cannot afford to look only to his own life for all his material nor pull strictly from his own experience to find his acting choices and feelings."

"One way we can enliven the imagination is to push it toward the illogical. We're not scientists. We don't always have to make the logical, reasonable leap."
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