"People believe that photographs are true and therefore cannot be art."

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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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"History develops, art stands still."

E. M. Forster, English Novelist

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"You do not need a boyfriend or a girlfriend to write an emotional poet, because poetry is beyond hooks and holes."

M.F. Moonzajer, Afghan Author

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"Music heals all forms of misery."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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"The play was a great success, but audience was a dismal failure."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

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"Only sick music makes money today."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

Art, Music, Economics, Criticism

"Weirdism is definitely the cornerstone of many an artist's career."

E.A. Bucchianeri, American Author

Art, Creativity, Individual, Expression

"People may think I'm trying something new by telling stories, but they're just jokes connected to give the illusion of stories. But really, I just continue using my imagination and creating. That's what I do."

Steven Wright, American Comedian

Art, Creativity, Imagination, Storytelling

"Something is always born of excess: great art was born of great terror, great loneliness, great inhibitions, instabilities, and it always balances them."

Anais Nin, American Author

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"Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life."

Aristotle, Greek Philosopher

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"At sixty, I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty, but I know a great deal more about folly."

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"Humor does not rescue us from unhappiness, but enables us to move back from it a little."

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

"History develops, art stands still."

"You do not need a boyfriend or a girlfriend to write an emotional poet, because poetry is beyond hooks and holes."

"Music heals all forms of misery."

"The play was a great success, but audience was a dismal failure."

"Only sick music makes money today."

"Weirdism is definitely the cornerstone of many an artist's career."

"People may think I'm trying something new by telling stories, but they're just jokes connected to give the illusion of stories. But really, I just continue using my imagination and creating. That's what I do."

"Something is always born of excess: great art was born of great terror, great loneliness, great inhibitions, instabilities, and it always balances them."

"Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life."

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"At sixty, I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty, but I know a great deal more about folly."

"Humor does not rescue us from unhappiness, but enables us to move back from it a little."

"In every death, a busy world comes to an end."

"Ideology has shaped the very sofa on which I sit."

"Some loves are like a vice that has ceased to give pleasure."

"Preserving tradition has become a nice hobby, like stamp collecting."

"No chaos, no creation. Evidence: the kitchen at mealtime."

"In bridge clubs and in councils of state, the passions are the same."

"Logic teaches rules for presentation, not thinking."

"Mistakes are the only universal form of originality."