"What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!"
― Anatole France
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Art
― Anatole France
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- "History books that contain no lies are extremely dull."
- "The poor have to labour in the face of the majestic equality of the law, which forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread."
- "Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women’s clothes. Men who like women never notice what they wear."
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- "Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television."― Rita Mae Brown
- "True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those who move easiest have learned to dance."― Alexander Pope
- "Art and mass entertainment and propaganda, they can all be plotted on the same graph, but there is a difference."― David Mamet