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Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.
Oscar Wilde
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Actors are the only honest hypocrites.
William Hazlitt
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He does it with a better grace, but I do it more natural.
William Shakespeare
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As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.
Leonardo da Vinci
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Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
Pablo Picasso
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I dream my painting and then paint my dream.
Vincent Van Gogh
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Only great minds can afford a simple style.
Stendhal
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In literature, as in love, we are astonished at the choice made by other people.
Andre Maurois
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Every man`s work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
Samuel Butler
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Everything you can imagine is real.
Pablo Picasso
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There are three rules for writing a novel; unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
William Somerset Maugham
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Writing is closer to thinking than to speaking.
Joseph Joubert
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Vision is the art of seeing the invisible.
Jonathan Swift
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He can who thinks he can, and he can`t who thinks he can`t. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.
Pablo Picasso
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A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.
Jean Cocteau
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I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
Pablo Picasso
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Proper words in proper places make the true definition of a style.
Jonathan Swift
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Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.
Moliere
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Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life.
George Sand
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