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Art must take reality by surprise.
–Francoise Sagan
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A composer knows his work as a woodsman knows a path he has traced and retraced, while a listener is confronted by the same work as one is in the woods by a plant he has never seen before.
–John Cage

You are told a lot about your education, but some beautiful memory, preserved since childhood, is perhaps the best education of all. If a man carries many such memories into life with him, he is saved for the rest of his days.
–Doestoyevsky

Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.
–Sholem Asch

I don't believe in art. I believe in artists.
–Marcel Duchamp
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