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| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
| NUMBER: | 7942 |
| QUOTATION: | If art has a purpose, it is to interpret life, reproduce it in fresh visions. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Catherine Drinker Bowen (1897–1973), U.S. biographer. Adventures of a Biographer, ch. 10 (1959). Though Bowen was referring to the “art” of writers, she was also a musician, and musicians had been her first biographical subjects. |
| The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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