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The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.: Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.: William Faulkner (1897 - 1962), Interview, 1958
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An authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.: Rebecca West (1892 - 1983), The Count and the Castle, 1957
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If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.: John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), Speech at Amherst College, October 26, 1963
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There is no better deliverance from the world than through art; and a man can form no surer bond with it than through art.: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832), Elective Affinities
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Without art the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Back to Methuselah, 1921
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The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will; and the other from a strong won't.: Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887), Seven Lectures to a Young Man, 1844
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How easy it is for generous sentiments, high courtesy, and chivalrous courage to lose their influence beneath the chilling blight of selfishness, and to exhibit to the world a man who was great in all the minor attributes of character, but who was found wanting when it became necessary to prove how much principle is superior to policy.: James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans, 1826
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I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to flexible at all times.: Everett Mckinley Dirkson
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If you want to know how a man stands, go among the people who are in his same business.: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)

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