"Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation."

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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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"To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job."

Simone de Beauvoir, French Writer

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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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"The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode."

Flannery O'Connor, American Author

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"Music heals all forms of misery."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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"Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable."

Charles Baudelaire, French Poet

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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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"The man can neither make, nor retain, one moment of time; it all comes to him by pure gift; he might as well regard the sun and moon as his chattels."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest."

Gustave Flaubert, French Novelist

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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."

"To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job."

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

"The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode."

"Music heals all forms of misery."

"Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable."

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

"The man can neither make, nor retain, one moment of time; it all comes to him by pure gift; he might as well regard the sun and moon as his chattels."

"The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest."

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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."