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It has always been difficult to get Big Bird to be very pretty. Big Bird in England is much more gorgeous.

— Jim Henson Interview with Judy Harris (1982)

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As children, we all live in a world of imagination, of fantasy, and for some of us that world of make-believe continues into adulthood.

When you trick people into laughing at themselves, that's wit. If you don't laugh at yourself, everything becomes heavy.

Interview with The Boston Globe (1989)

A lot of the shows relate to interrelationships and attitudes, again, always trying to do it within the context of a very entertaining show.

Interview with Associated Press (1987)

Puppets have the same sort of graceful aging that cartoon characters have.

Interview with Associated Press (1986)

If any-thing, there's a difference in working with color in England and the color in the U.S.

Interview with Judy Harris (1982)

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Beautiful objects are wrought by study through effort, but ugly things are reaped automatically without toil.

Democritus Freeman (1948)

True beauty dwells in deep retreats,
Whose veil is unremoved
Till heart with heart in concord beats,
And the lover is beloved.

William Wordsworth

The great artists are the ones who dare to entitle to beauty things so natural that when they're seen afterward, people say: Why did I never realize before that this too was beautiful?

André Gide The Immoralist (1902)

Beauty itself doth of itself persuade
The eyes of men without an orator.

William Shakespeare The Rape of Lucrece (1594)

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