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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Any great work of art… revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world — the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air. – Leonard Bernstein, What Makes Opera Grand?

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What you often see in a lesser work of art is a subject captured perfectly and never set free. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Oh yeah, I mean every fighter has got be dedicated, learn how to sacrifice, know what the devotion is all about, make sure youre paying attention and studying your art. – Marvin Hagler

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One of the best things about paintings is their silence — which prompts reflection and random reverie. – Mark Stevens

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A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself. – Jessamyn West

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