“Art for the sake of art itself is an idle sentence. Art for…” George Sand

We cannot tear a single page from our life, but we can throw the whole book into the fire.
Mauprat, ch. 11 (1837); Matilda M. Hays (trans.) Mauprat (London: E. Churton, 1847) p. 121
- Life & Death
Art is a demonstration of which nature is the proof.
François le Champi, Introduction (1848); Jane Minot Sedgwick (trans.) François the Waif {New York: H. M. Caldwell, 1894) p. 17
- Art
- Nature
I have an object, a task, let me say the word, a passion. The profession of writing is a violent and almost indestructible one.
Letter to Jules Boucoiran (4 March 1831), in Correspondance, ed. Georges Lubin, vol. 1, pp. 817–18
- Writing

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