• The genuine artist is never ''true to life.'' He sees what is real, but not as we are normally aware of it. We do not go storming through life like actors in a play. Art is never real life.

  Wallace Stevens
  American poet 1879-1955
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1. normally
2. storming
3. through
4. actors

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The genuine artist is never ''true to life.'' He sees what is real, but not as we are normally aware of it. We do not go storming through life like actors in a play. Art is never real life. by : Wallace Stevens

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