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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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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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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Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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It has taken me years of struggle, hard work and research to learn to make one simple gesture, and I know enough about the art of writing to realize that it would take as many years of concentrated effort to write one simple, beautiful sentence. – Isadora Duncan

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The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity. – Andre Gide

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Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in. – Amy Lowell

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Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature? – Charles Baudelaire

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He insulted me, he cheated me, he beat me, he robbed me — those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace. – Buddha

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