"A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world."

Wilde, Oscar on Dreams
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"Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months."

Wilde, Oscar on Fashion
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"We worship not the Graces, nor the Parcae, but Fashion. She spins and weaves and cuts with full authority. The head monkey at Paris puts on a traveler's cap, and all the monkeys in America do the same."

Thoreau, Henry David on Fashion
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"Fashions, after all, are only induced epidemics."

Shaw, George Bernard on Fashion
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"Fashion is a tyrant from which there is no deliverance; all must conform to its whimsical."

Proverb, French on Fashion
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"Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth."

Picasso, Pablo on Arts and Artists
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"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."

Picasso, Pablo on Arts and Artists
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"The people who make art their business are mostly impostors."

Picasso, Pablo on Arts and Artists
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"The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web."

Picasso, Pablo on Inspiration
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"To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic."

Picasso, Pablo on Imitation
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"Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing."

Dali, Salvador on Imitation
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"Imitation is suicide."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on Imitation
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"Those who talk about individuality the most are the ones who most object to deviation, and in a few years it may be the other way around. Some day everybody will just think what they want to think, and then everybody will probably be thinking alike; that"

Warhol, Andy on Individuality
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"Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer."

Wilde, Oscar on Dreams
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"Art is never chaste. It ought to be forbidden to ignorant innocents, never allowed into contact with those not sufficiently prepared. Yes, art is dangerous. Where it is chaste, it is not art."

Picasso, Pablo on Censorship
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"To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture."

Picasso, Pablo on Progress
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"People sometimes say that the way things happen in the movies is unreal, but actually it's the way things happen to you in life that's unreal. The movies make emotions look so strong and real, whereas when things really do happen to you, it's like watching television -- you don't feel anything."

Warhol, Andy on Cinema
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"Love and sex can go together and sex and unlove can go together and love and unsex can go together. But personal love and personal sex is bad."

Warhol, Andy on Compatibility
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"Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet."

Warhol, Andy on Love
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"I am a deeply superficial person."

Warhol, Andy on People
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"An idea ran back and forward in his head like a blind man, knocking over the solid furniture."

Unknown, Source on Inspiration
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"The torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost, by virtue or by vice, by friend or by fiend, by prayer or by wine."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on Inspiration
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"I who have been involved with all styles of painting can assure you that the only things that fluctuate are the waves of fashion which carry the snobs and speculators; the number of true connoisseurs remains more or less the same."

Picasso, Pablo on Fashion
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"The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima."

Picasso, Pablo on Genius
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"Thomas Jefferson -- still surv"

Adams, John on Famous Last Words
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"In the old days villains had moustaches and kicked the dog. Audiences are smarter today. They don't want their villain to be thrown at them with green limelight on his face. They want an ordinary human being with failings."

Hitchcock, Alfred on Villains
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"If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married."

Hepburn, Katharine on Marriage
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"The average Hollywood film star's ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend."

Hepburn, Katharine on Hollywood
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"I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the experience."

Hepburn, Audrey on Experience
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"A common mistake people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools."

Adams, Douglas on Trying
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"There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened."

Adams, Douglas on Mystery
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"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move."

Adams, Douglas on Humankind
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"Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss."

Adams, Douglas on Airplane and Aviation
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"Friends applaud, the comedy is over."

Beethoven, Ludwig Van on Famous Last Words
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"Drink to me."

Picasso, Pablo on Famous Last Words
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"What is the answer? [Silence] In that case, what is the question?"

Stein, Gertrude on Famous Last Words
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"Matisse makes a drawing, then he makes a copy of it. He recopies it five times, ten times, always clarifying the line. He's convinced that the last, the most stripped down, is the best, the purest, the definitive one; and in fact, most of the time, it was the first. In drawing, nothing is better than the first attempt."

Picasso, Pablo on Drawing
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"Painting is silent poetry and poetry spoken, painting."

Simonides on Painters and Painting
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"I paint objects as I think them not as I see them."

Picasso, Pablo on Painters and Painting
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"Reality leaves a lot to the imagination."

Lennon, John on Reality
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