The Truth

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

Art is anything you can get away with. - Marshall McLuhan

Illusion is the first of all pleasures. - Oscar Wilde

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

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

What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art. - Augustus Saint-Gaudens

We have art to save ourselves from the truth. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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

The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity. - Douglas Horton

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home. - Twyla Tharp

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

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art. - Susan Sontag

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth. - Ludwig Borne

It's so much easier to throw rocks than it is to govern. - Karen Bass

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

The call of love sounds very hollow among these immobile rocks. - Gustav Mahler

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

There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome. - Andre Gide

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

Our separation from each other is an optical illusion of consciousness. - Albert Einstein

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

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

The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you. - Oscar Wilde

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

Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on. - Robert Frost

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

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

Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experience treacherous, judgment difficult. - Hypocrites

Shopping: The fine art of acquiring things you don't need with money you don't have. - Unknown

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

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

Leadership: The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. - Dwight D Eisenhower

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

I feel strongly that the visual arts are of vast importance. Of course I could be prejudiced. I am a visual art. - Kermit The Frog

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

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

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival. - C S Lewis