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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The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world. – Willa Cather

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Sunshine
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Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark that shows us another side, another man, really; a man uncertain, and puzzled, and in the dark like ourselves. – Willa Cather

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Neighbors
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All the intelligence and talent in the world cant make a singer. The voice is a wild thing. It cant be bred in captivity. It is a sport, like the silver fox. It happens. – Willa Cather

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Intelligence
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Other Quotes from
Art
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People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when its simply necessary to love. – Claude Monet

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Art

Of all lies, art is the least untrue. – Gustave Flaubert

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Art

People believe that photographs are true and therefore cannot be art. – Mason Cooley

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Art

I dont want life to imitate art. I want life to be art. – Ernst Fischer

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Art

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Clever father, clever daughter; clever mother, clever son. – Russian Proverb

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I had to stop driving my car for a while… the tires got dizzy. – Steven Wright

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I remember when I started off, my first car was a Kia Spectra. With a spoiler kit and some rims. – Gio Gonzalez

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Novels are to love as fairy tales to dreams. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834), lecture on Don Quixote, Cervantes

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