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" Art must take reality by surprise. "

Francoise Sagan

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" Fine art is knowledge made visible. "

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" This world is but a canvas to our imagination. "

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" In winter, the stars seem to have rekindled their fires, the moon achieves a fuller triumph, and the heavens wear a look of a more exalted simplicity. Summer is more wooing and seductive, more versatile and human, appeals to the affections and the sentiments, and fosters inquiry and the art impulse. "

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" I've tried very hard and I've never found any resemblance between the people I know and the people in my novels. "

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