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Part of people's concern is just the sense that around the world the old order isn't holding and we're not quite yet to where we need to be in terms of a new order that's based on a different set of principles, that's based on a sense of common humanity, that's based on economies that work for all people.

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Be always displeased at what thou art, if thou desirest to attain to what thou art not.

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So-called Chinese art and culture is under control of the Party. They exist to serve the official agenda. I call it fake art and culture.

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Hence the experienced soldier, once in motion, is never bewildered; once he has broken camp, he is never at a loss.

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The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

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What one does in one's art, that is the breath of one's being. What one does in one's life, that is a bagatelle for the outsiders to fuss about.

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How aware were photographers in the past of other visual arts? "No photographer of any distinction at all could approach his work without some awareness of what was going on in other visual media, and for that matter neither the painter nor the draughtsman could ignore photography."

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In China, we don't have any contemporary art museums. Until a few years ago, we didn't even have a gallery.

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All art is concerned with coming into being; for it is concerned neither with things that are, or come into being by necessity, nor with things that do so in accordance with nature.

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I think art is a very important weapon to achieve human freedom

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Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not. The best of beauty is a finer charm than skill in surfaces, in outlines, or rules of art can ever teach, namely, a radiation from the work of art of human character, — a wonderful expression through stone, or canvas, or musical sound, of the deepest and simplest attributes of our nature, and therefore most intelligible at last to those souls which have these attributes.

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If nothing were left of an extinct race but a single button, I would be able to infer, form the shape of that button, how these people dressed, built their houses, how they lived, what was their religion, their art, their mentality.

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But in every constitution some large degree of animal vigor is necessary as material foundation for the higher qualities of the art.

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Art is a means of union among men, joining them together in the same feeling.

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Life too near paralyses art.

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The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life.

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I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

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I will live in thy heart, die in thy lap, and be buried in thy eyes—and moreover, I will go with thee to thy uncle’s.

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In peace prepare for war, in war prepare for peace. The art of war is of vital importance to the state. It is matter of life and death, a road either to safety or to ruin. Hence under no circumstances can it be neglected.

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Everything is art. Everything is politics.

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