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| Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television. | | Woody Allen | |
| Life imitates art far more than art imitates life. | | Oscar Wilde | |
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| Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises. | | Samuel Butler | |
| Love isn't an emotion or an instinct--it's an art. | | Mae West | |
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| Music can save people, but it can't in the commercial way it's being used. It's just too much. It's pollution. | | Bob Dylan | |
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| Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it. | | D.H. Lawrence | |
| No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change | | John Ruskin | |
| No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short | | Thomas Hobbes | |
| No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight of the soul | | Ingrid Bergman | |
| No good work whatever can be perfect, and the demand for perfection is always a sign of a misunderstanding of the ends of art | | John Ruskin | |
| No man ever reached to excellence in any one art or profession without having passed through the slow and painful process of study and preparation | | Horace | |
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| O Music! Miraculous art! A blast of thy trumpet and millions rush forward to die; a peal of thy organ and uncounted nations sink down to pray | | Benjamin Disraeli | |
| One never knows what one is going to do. One starts a painting and then it becomes something quite different. | | Pablo Picasso | |
| one of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science isescape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopelessdreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. Afinely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into theworld of objective perception and thought. | | Albert Einstein | |
