"The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.“

-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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"Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad."

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"The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books."

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"Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence."

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"Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart."

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"Music is the universal language of mankind."

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"Resolve and thou art free."

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"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value rather it is one of those things that give value to survival."

-C. S. Lewis

"Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television."

-Woody Allen

"I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art."

-Ernst Fischer

"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

"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."

-Andy Warhol