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The true art of memory is the art of attention. - Samuel Johnson

The true art of memory is the art of attention. – Samuel Johnson

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There is scarcely any writer who has not celebrated the happiness of rural privacy, and delighted himself and his reader with the melody of birds, the whisper of groves, and the murmur of rivulets. – Samuel Johnson

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The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke. – Jerzy Kosinski

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I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me. – Roy Lichtenstein

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It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it. – Anais Nin

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Ive been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good. – Barbra Streisand

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