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Gian Carlo Menotti

"Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding."

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"Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding."

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"Personality is everything in art and poetry."

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"And the rain drops kept falling like the sweetest musicleaving tears on the glass,which is what music does to memost of the timebut silence too. and rain."

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"Should it matter what genre it is if the book is good?"

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"I live, love and loathe my characters. They stole my mind. They stole my heart."

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"Poets. have the toughest jobin the universe-of turning silenceinto eloquence."

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"Art is always in the eyes of the beholder. Only posterity has the right to point out our mistakes."

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"It's sarcasm, Josh.'Sarcasm?'It's from the Greek, sarkasmos. To bite the lips. It means that you aren't really saying what you mean, but people will get your point. I invented it, Bartholomew named it.'Well, if the village idiot named it, I'm sure it's a good thing.'There you go, you got it.'Got what?'Sarcasm.'No, I meant it.'Sure you did.'Is that sarcasm?'Irony, I think.'What's the difference?'I haven't the slightest idea.'So you're being ironic now, right?'No, I really don't know.'Maybe you should ask the idiot.'Now you've got it.'What?'Sarcasm."

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Amber Hurdle

"Music gives strength to the spirit."

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"Art creates high energy, high vibrations, high music, high feelings, high of everything! Without art, we leave highness and we meet lowness!"

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"If it's good art, it's good."

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