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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

Other quotes by Claude Debussy

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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Music
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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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Beauty
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Other Quotes from
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Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation. – Edmund Burke

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Art

Art is the struggle to understand. – Terri Guillemets

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Art

Raising children is a creative endeavor, an art rather than a science. – Bruno Bettelheim

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Art

Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself. – Henry Miller

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A watched child never learns. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Let it judge that nothing is either bad or good which can happen equally to the bad man and the good. For that which happens equally to him who lives contrary to nature and to him who lives according to nature, is neither according to nature nor contrary to nature. – Marcus Aurelius

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It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one. – George Washington

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Organisms by their design are not made to adapt too far. – Kevin Kelly

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