“Art must take reality by surprise.”– Francoise Sagan Related Quotes “Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man’s starving!”– O. Henry “The art which we may call generally art of the wayside, as opposed to that which is the business of men’s lives, is, in the best sense of the word, Grotesque.”– John Ruskin “What art offers is space – a certain breathing room for the spirit.”– John Updike