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I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do—that was one of my favorite things about it—and when I first did it, I felt perverse.

—Diane Arbus, c. 1950

This is a fault common to all singers, that among their friends they will never sing when they are asked; unasked, they will never desist.

—Horace, c. 35 BC

Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer.

—G.C. Lichtenberg, c. 1780

Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.

—W.H. Auden, c. 1940

We possess art lest we perish of the truth.

—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1887
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