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Art is like baby shoes. When you coat them with gold, they can no longer be worn.

John Updike

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What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit.

Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

One does not need buildings, money, power, or status to practice the Art of Peace. Heaven is right where you are standing, and that is the place to train.

To injure an opponent is to injure yourself. To control aggression without inflicting injury in the Art of Peace.

There are no contests in the Art of Peace. A true warrior is invincible because he or she contests with nothing. Defeat means to defeat the mind of contention that we harbor within.

The art of Peace I practice has room for each of the world's eight million gods, and I cooperate with them all. The God of Peace is very great and enjoins all that is divine and enlightened in every land.

Any work of art that can be understood is the product of journalism.

Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need works that are strong, straight, precise, and forever beyond understanding.

In the end, nature is inexorable: it has no reason to hurry and, sooner or later, it takes what belongs to it. Unconsciously and inflexibly obedient to its own laws, it doesn't know art, just as it doesn't know freedom, just as it doesn't know goodness.

I'm a firm believer that actors take to work who they aren't at home. People show their other self in their art or in their work.

Robin Tunney

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