"We loved with a love that was more than love."
-Edgar Allan Poe
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"Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'“
-Edgar Allan Poe
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"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night."
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"The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?"
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"Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant."
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"It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream."
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"I have great faith in fools self-confidence my friends call it."
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"Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television."
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"I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art."
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"Well, Art is Art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know."
-Groucho Marx
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"I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot."
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"An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have."
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