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Quote by Claude Debussy
Art is the most beautiful deception of all. And although people tr

Art is the most beautiful deception of all. And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory. – Claude Debussy

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I love music passionately. And because I love it I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it. – Claude Debussy

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Beauty must appeal to the senses, must provide us with immediate enjoyment, must impress us or insinuate itself into us without any effort on our part. – Claude Debussy

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So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die that is to say, civilization will die. – William Morris

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I cry out for order and find it only in art. – Helen Hayes

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Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century. – Marshall McLuhan

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The problem is that once the rules of art are debunked, and once the unpleasant realities the irony diagnoses are revealed and diagnosed, then what do we do? – David Foster Wallace

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