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The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.

Perhaps the mission of an artist is to interpret beauty to people - the beauty within themselves.

Whether it's music or acting, that creativity all comes from the same source.

There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and dancers flourish.

Even the greatest poets, I think, cannot quite get to the places that music can get to in the human - I was gonna say mind, but it's actually the entire body. It somehow seems to infuse the entire body.

Grant that the true organ with which the beautiful is apprehended is the imagination, and it follows that all arts are likely to affect the feelings indirectly.

To give a body and a perfect form to one's thought, this - and only this - is to be an artist.

With few exceptions, music has been for some centuries the art which has devoted itself not to the reproduction of natural phenomena, but rather to the expression of the artist's soul, in musical sound.

The foundation of beauty is the body.

There are two kinds of artists in this world; those that work because the spirit is in them, and they cannot be silent if they would, and those that speak from a conscientious desire to make apparent to others the beauty that has awakened their own admiration.