The Truth

Politics is the art of the possible. - Otto von Bismarck

Tea is a religion of the art of life. - Okakura Kakuzo

I'm not making art, I'm making sushi. - Masaharu Morimoto

Life is the art of drawing without an eraser. - John Gardner

I teach the art of turning anguish into delight. - Georges Bataille

Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace. - Oscar Wilde

Making sushi is an art, and experience is everything. - Nobu Matsuhisa

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. - Oscar Wilde

Art is the demonstration that the ordinary is extraordinary. - Amedee Ozenfant

Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion. - Miguel de Unamuno

The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure. - Dale Carnegie

Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between. - David Letterman

Illusion is the dust the devil throws in the eyes of the foolish. - Minna Antrim

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls. - Pablo Picasso

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. - Thomas Merton

If thou art a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf. - Thomas Fuller

The great art of life is sensation; to feel that we exist, even in pain. - Lord Byron

There are moments when Art almost attains to the dignity of manual labor. - Oscar Wilde

I have to get inspired by something that touches my soul, or rocks my soul. - Steven Tyler

Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises. - Samuel Butler

How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance. - Petrarch

The knowledge from an enlightened person breaks on the hard rocks of ignorance. - Mahesh Yogi

Oh, if it be to choose and call thee mine, love, thou art every day my Valentine! - Thomas Hood

The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them. - Bernard M Baruch

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. - Scott Adams

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. - George Bernard Shaw

What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying. - Oscar Wilde

It's amazing what you can do with an E in A-Level art, a twisted imagination and a chainsaw. - Damien Hirst

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. - Aristotle

A blind man can make art if what is in his mind can be passed to another mind in some tangible form. - Sol LeWitt

My love life is terrible. The last time I was inside a woman was when I visited the Statue of Liberty. - Woody Allen

Never pay attention to what critics say. Remember, a statue has never been set up in honor of a critic. - Jean Sibelius

What's the earth with all its art, verse, music, worth -
Compared with love, found, gained, and kept? - Robert Browning

The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up. - Jay Leno

Despite all our toil and progress, the art of medicine still falls somewhere between trout casting and spook writing. - Ben Hecht

Outcomes rarely turn on grand gestures or the art of the deal, but on whether you've sent someone a thank-you note. - Bernie Brillstein

If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him. - John F Kennedy

The birch-bark canoe of the savage seems to me one of the most beautiful and perfect things of the kind constructed by human art. - William C. Bryant

Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. - Donald Trump

Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor. - Andre Gide