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"Art is the most beautiful deception of all. And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory."

Claude Debussy, French Composer
Art, Life, People, Hope
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"Art is the most beautiful deception of all. And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory."

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"I love music passionately. And because I love it I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it."
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"First of all, ladies and gentlemen, you must forget that you are singers."
First, Forget, Ladies, Gentlemen
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"Extreme complication is contrary to art."
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"Beauty must appeal to the senses, must provide us with immediate enjoyment, must impress us or insinuate itself into us without any effort on our part."
Beauty, Effort, Enjoyment, Senses
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"Art is the most beautiful of all lies."
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"A beautiful sunset that was mistaken for a dawn."
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"Some people wish above all to conform to the rules, I wish only to render what I can hear. There is no theory. You have only to listen. Pleasure is the law."
People, Law, Pleasure, Rules
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"In opera, there is always too much singing."
Opera, Singing
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"Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light."
Music, Arithmetic, Geometry, Light
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"Music is the expression of the movement of the waters, the play of curves described by changing breezes."
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"The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance."

Aristotle, Greek Philosopher
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"We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand."

Pablo Picasso, Spanish Artist
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"What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real."

Rabindranath Tagore, Indian Poet
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"Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth."

Pablo Picasso, Spanish Artist
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"Art is not a thing; it is a way."

Elbert Hubbard, American Writer
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"Painting is just another way of keeping a diary."

Pablo Picasso, Spanish Artist
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"A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left."

Alexander Pope, English Poet
Art, Work, Theories
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"The thing about hip-hop today is it's smart, it's insightful. The way they can communicate a complex message in a very short space is remarkable."

Barack Obama, American President
Art, Remarkable, Space, Today
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"Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth."

Publilius Syrus, Roman Writer
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"One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit."

Alexander Pope, English Poet
Art, Science, Genius, Will
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