The Truth

Life is brief, art is long. - Hippocrates

The secret of life is in art. - Oscar Wilde

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

Illusion is the first of all pleasures. - Oscar Wilde

If that's art, I'm a Hottentot! - Harry S Truman

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

Geologists have a saying - rocks remember. - Neil Armstrong

Education is the art of making man ethical. - Georg Hegel

Vision is the art of seeing things invisible. - Jonathan Swift

Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence. - Joseph Krutch

Truth is simple, requiring neither study nor art. - Ammian

Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life. - Oscar Wilde

Art is making something out of nothing and selling it. - Frank Zappa

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

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. - Albert Einstein

The new job of art is to sit on the wall and get more expensive. - Robert Hughes

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

Art doesn't reproduce the visible but rather makes it visible. - Paul Klee

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known. - Oscar Wilde

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

To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy. - Will Durant

Anyone who says you can't see a thought simply doesn't know art. - Wynetka Ann Reynolds

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

Italy is the home of art and swindling; home of religion and moral rottenness. - Mark Twain

Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. - William Congreve

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

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. - Albert Einstein

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad. - Salvador Dali

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

The person that turns over the most rocks wins the game. And that's always been my philosophy. - Peter Lynch

Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings. - Vicki Baum

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

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy. - Groucho Marx

Logic: the art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. - Ambrose Bierce

Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other. - Oscar Ameringer

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