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Art Quotes by Virginia Woolf
- A strange thing has happened - while all the other arts were born naked, this, the youngest, has been born fully-clothed. It can say everything…
- It is probable that both in life and in art the values of a woman are not the values of a man.
- To read a novel is a difficult and complex art. You must be capable not only of great fineness of perception, but of great boldness…
- Some collaboration has to take place in the mind between the woman and the man before the art of creation can be accomplished. Some marriage…
- Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.
- Behind the cotton wool is hidden a pattern; that we—I mean all human beings—are connected with this; that the whole world is a work of…
- Who would not spout the family teapot in order to talk with Keats for an hour about poetry, or with Jane Austen about the art…
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