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• Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness.
  The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is....
• The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or woman. Willa Cathe
• I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.
  -- Willa Cathe...
• Give the people a new word and they think they have a new fact.
  -- Willa Cather (1873-1947) U.S. noveli...
• A child's attitude toward everything is an artist's attitude.
  -- Willa Cather (1873-1947) U.S. noveli...
• I tell you there is such a thing as creative hate. -- Willa Cather (1873-1947) U.S. noveli
• What was any art but an effort to make a sheath, a mold in which to imprison for a moment the shining, elusive element which is life itself.
  -- Willa Cather (1873-1947) U.S. noveli...
• Art should simplify. That is very nearly the whole of the higher artistic proce
  finding what conventions of form and what detail one can do without and yet preserve the spirit of the whole....
• MENSCH Man Entitled to Nights of Sensuously Complete Happine