Classical Art Quotes

• when dancing is right, the movement possesss a logic common to us all, an inevitability that takes it beyond the personal and egocentric and makes of it classical art.

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  Twyla Tharp

  Dance   Art   Dancing  

  Twyla Tharp (1992). “Push Comes to Shove”, Bantam Dell Publishing Group

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• The objective of the Classical Art of Riding is to train the horse not only to be brilliant in the movements and the exercises of the High School but also to be quiet, supple and obedient and by his smooth movements to make riding a true pleasure

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  Alois Podhajsky

  Art   Horse   School  

  Alois Podhajsky (2013). “The Complete Training of Horse and Rider”, p.25, Doubleday

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• Classical art stands for form; romantic art for content.

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  Robin G. Collingwood

  Art   Form   Classical Art  

  4162

• I would like my work to be recognized as being in the classical tradition (Coptic, Egyptian, Greek, Chinese), as representing the Ideal in the mind. Classical art cannot possibly be eclectic. One must see the ideal in one's own mind. It is like a memory - an awareness -of perfection.

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  Agnes Martin

  Art   Memories   Perfection  

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• Just as experience dictates to the ballet teacher the length of time necessary to train his students, so the horse, too, needs time to mature into a great four legged dancer. This fact cannot be obliterated by seeming successes that supposedly prove the opposite. For, even if someone should succeed in training a horse to high school level by the age of eight, this individual occurrence cannot shake the foundations of the classical art of riding, if this dressage horse is completely unsound and unusable by the age of ten.

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  Alois Podhajsky

  Teacher   Horse   Art  

  1106

• I think there's a kind of built-in arrogance to anyone who considers themself an artist. They want to feel as though like they can run the whole spectrum. "I can do it all. I can do minimalism, and I can do classical art." Well, that's not true.

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  Sylvester Stallone

  Running   Art   Thinking  

  Source: www.foxnews.com

  1997