"Of late years (perhaps as a result of our political changes) art has borrowed from history more than ever."

Art, History, Result, Years

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"Of late years (perhaps as a result of our political changes) art has borrowed from history more than ever."

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"Music awaken our soul."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"The proper stuff of fiction does not exist everything is the proper stuff of fiction every feeling every thought every quality of brain and spirit is drawn upon no perception comes amiss. And if we can imagine the art of fiction come alive and standing in our midst she would undoubtedly bid us break her and bully her as well as honour and love her for so her youth is renewed and her sovereignty assured."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"Music gives life to the soul."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

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"I place my fingers upon these keys typing 2,000 dreams per minute and naked of spirit dance forth my cosmic vortex upon this crucifix called language."

Aberjhani, American Historian

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"The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science."

Erich Fromm, American Psychologist

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"I see my life in terms of music."

Albert Einstein, German Scientist

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"Why poetry, you ask? Because of life, I answer."

Dejan Stojanovic, Serbian Philosopher

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"I couldn't wait for the sun to come up the next morning so that I could get out on the course again."

Ben Hogan, American Athlete

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"Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

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"No writer, no matter how gifted, immortalizes himself unless he has crystallized into expressive and original phrase the eternal sentiments and yearnings of the human heart."

Heart, Writer

"We shall find in our troubled hearts, where discord reigns, two needs which seem at variance, but which merge, as I think, in a common source - the love of the true, and the love of the fabulous."

Love, Needs

"Of late years (perhaps as a result of our political changes) art has borrowed from history more than ever."

Art, History, Result, Years

"From this, without doubt, sprang the fable. Man created it thus, because it was not given him to see more than himself and nature, which surrounds him; but he created it true with a truth all its own."

Nature, Truth, Doubt, Man

"One might almost reckon mathematically that, having undergone the double composition of public opinion and of the author, their history reaches us at third hand and is thus separated by two stages from the original fact."

History, Fact, Opinion, Public

"Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty."

Art, Beauty

"Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life?"

Life, Imitation

"What it values most of all is the sum total of events and the advance of civilization, which carries individuals along with it; but, indifferent to details, it cares less to have them real than noble or, rather, grand and complete."

Civilization, Values, Events

"Of what use is the memory of facts, if not to serve as an example of good or of evil?"

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"But it is the province of religion, of philosophy, of pure poetry only, to go beyond life, beyond time, into eternity."

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