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“ ”Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.
Dame Margot Fonteyn (18 May 1919 - 21 February 1991) was a British ballet dancer, born Margaret Hookham, and nicknamed "Peggy".
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Minor things can become moments of great revelation when encountered for the first time.
Genius is another word for magic, and the whole point of magic is that it is inexplicable.
People who live in big cities are deprieved, consciously or unconsciously, of those almost indefinable things on which our human sensitivity feeds, like the first breath of morning country air imperceptibly scented by dew; the glint of late afternoon sun through pale green leaves; the whiff of wood smoke or even the distant sound of barking carried across fields. A million little bonuses of nature are denied the city dweller, his subconscious is undernourished and his need for art is greater than that of country folk.