This is Art holding a Mirror up to Life. That’s why everything is exactly the wrong way around.
– Terry Pratchett
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- If you don’t know exactly where you are going (and why),that is exactly where you will end up. – Christopher Babson
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- The world is like a mirror; it reflects (shows) everything exactly the way it is. If there is a defect, it will reflect (show) that defect. – Dada Bhagwan
- Art for art’s sake, with no purpose, for any purpose perverts art. But art achieves a purpose which is not its own. (1804) – Benjamin Constant
- I’m an artist. I’m an artist and I’m going to make art! Art arty art art. – Andy Beirsack
- Why-why-why!… Ask it of everything your mind touches, and let you mind touch everything! – Ann Fairbairn
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- We are wasting our youth holding cold devices while we should be holding one another’s warm hands. – Mohamed Ghazi
- The pen is truly mightier than the sword. Unless you’re holding a pen and the other guy’s holding a sword. – Dave Besseling
- I don’t believe in a country where it’s more acceptable to see two men holding guns than two men holding hands. – Brian Whitaker
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- I see art in everything. Your shoes. That car. This coffee cup. It’s art if you see it as art. – Andy Warhol
- Looking at yourself in a mirror isn’t exactly a study of life. – Lauren Bacall
- Oh, man, why is this the life? Why is it? Why is one rich and the other poor? Why is one black and the other white? – Tony DSouza
- Look at it like this, it’s not that we’re making life, we’re simply giving life a place to live. – Terry Pratchett
- Everything is light, everything is warmth, everything is electricity, everything is a magnetic field, everything is you. – LH
- If you don’t know exactly what you want, that is exactly what you will get. – Christopher Babson
- Don’t ask me to apologize for holding up a mirror. If you don’t like what it’s reflecting, take accountability and change it. – Steve Maraboli
- Why does it take fear to move you? Why does it take chaos to make us understand exactly what we need to do? – Laura Dave
- Leaving your future to pot luck is holding you back, you are worth more than anything, yet why do you leave everything to chance? – Stephen Richards
- In the mirror, I look the same. But I am a different person inside.I am a prodigy who knows the truth. I know exactly what I’m going to do. – Marie Lu
- We suffered for our art. You have to suffer for our art as well! – Terry Gilliam
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- His progress through life was hampered by his tremendous sense of his own ignorance, a disability which affects all too few. – Terry Pratchett
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- Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain’t got no business doing wrong when he ain’t ignorant and knows better. – Mark Twain
- The fact that good people can be forced to do wrong doesn’t make them less good. But it also doesn’t make the wrong less wrong. – Ovadya ben Malka
- I strongly object to wrong arguments on the right side. I think I object to them more than to the wrong arguments on the wrong side. – GK Chesterton
- Sometimes you have to choose between a bunch of wrong choices and no right ones. You just have to choose which wrong choices feels the least wrong. – Colleen Hoover
- It is wrong to kill anyone. It is wrong to kill those who kill. It is wrong to kill the executioner. The laws on murder must be killed! – Charles Nodier