Art must take reality by surprise.... -Francoise Sagan

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Art must take reality by surprise.

Francoise Sagan , Playwright
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Francoise Sagan was a French playwright and novelist, known for her best-selling debut novel "Bonjour Tristesse," which brought her international acclaim and success.

Francoise Sagan Quotes to Explore

One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter....
To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter....
I always believe things are going to work out....
Jazz music is an intensified feeling of nonchalance....
The one thing I regret is that I will never have time to read all the books I want to read....
Marriage? It's like asparagus eaten with vinaigrette or hollandaise, a matter of taste but of no importance....
Art must take reality by surprise....

Art Quotes to Explore

I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also t...
Art is for everybody....
It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully....
I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring in that art that God has given me in order to extend my life as long as possible....
Art? That's a man's name....
Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day....
Extreme complication is contrary to art....
Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable....
The mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the head a...
When I was making my debut as an artist, I felt that it was very important that I try to combine the background of my own culture, my people, and the ...