The Truth

Art is a revolt against fate. - Andre Malraux

The modern work of art is a symbol. - Herbert Read

One does not marry art. One ravishes it. - Edgar Degas

Art is a house that tries to be haunted. - Emily Dickinson

Call on God, but row away from the rocks. - Indian Proverb

An art thief is a man who takes pictures. - George Carlin

Our humor turns our anger into a fine art. - Mary Kay Blakely

The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook. - William James

The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks. - Tennessee Williams

The art of a people is a true mirror to their minds. - Jawaharlal Nehru

The art of government is the organization of idolatry. - George Bernard Shaw

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing. - Marcus Aurelius

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday. - Don Marquis

Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory. - Oscar Wilde

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

Advertising is the greatest art form of the twentieth century. - Marshall McLuhan

It is a symbol of Irish art. The cracked looking-glass of a servant. - James Joyce

The fine art of preparing sushi is something that you watch and learn. - Nobu Matsuhisa

The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much. - William Hazlitt

Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly. - Morticia Addams

You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul. - George Bernard Shaw

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

Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid. - Walter Winchell

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge. - Daniel J. Boorstin

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better. - Andre Gide

The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient, whilst Mother Nature takes care of the cure. - Voltaire

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

Confidence, like art, never comes from having all the answers; it comes from being open to all the questions. - Earl Gray Stevens

I went to the museum where they had all the heads and arms from the statues that are in all the other museums. - Steven Wright

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

Art is made to disturb. Science reassures. There is only one valuable thin in art: the thing you cannot explain. - Georges Braque

'Tis not always in a physician's power to cure the sick; at times the disease is stronger than trained art. - Ovid

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

It was so quiet, a reservation kind of quiet, where you can hear somebody drinking whiskey on the rocks three miles away. - Sherman Alexie

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other. - Voltaire

Art owes its origin to nature. This beautiful creation supplied the first model, while the original teacher was that divine intelligence. - Giorgio Vasari