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Quote by Willa Cather
What was any art but a mold in which to imprison for a moment the

What was any art but a mold in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself — life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose. – Willa Cather

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I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences. – Walt Whitman

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So vast is art, so narrow human wit. – Alexander Pope

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Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known. – Oscar Wilde

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Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises. – Samuel Butler

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