“Art is feeling, passed through thought and fixed in form”
“Art is the idealization of the real and realization of the ideal”
“To depend entirely upon inspiration is as bad a waiting for a shipwreck to learn how to swim. To leave everything to natural spontaneity is as bad as to make everything the result of mechanical pre-determination…perfection is the harmonious blending of the two”
“Art is the richest gift of heaven to earth. The true artist never grows old. He is never too old to feel the charm of divine beauty”
“A man may possess remarkable qualities, may have grace, expression, charm, elegance, but they are all as nothing if he does not interpret truth”
“Knowledge, possession, and control; there you have the artist”
Shawn, Ted. Every Little Movement: A Book About François Delsarte. Dance Horizons, 1954, 23-24, 58-59.
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