Mona Lisa - Behind The Scenes

Art is the most beautiful of lies. - Claude Debussy

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

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

Dancing with her was like moving a piano. - Ring Lardner

Any idealism is a proper subject for art. - Lafcadio Hearn

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

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

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

Logic is neither science nor an art, but a dodge. - Benjamin Jowett

The art of love is largely the art of persistence. - Albert Ellis

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

The immature artist imitates. The mature artist steals. - Lionel Trilling

A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art. - Paul Cezanne

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. - Pablo Picasso

Mathematical genius and artistic genius touch one another. - Gosta Mittag-Leffler

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

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

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

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul. - Joseph Addison

I don't own a camera, so I travel with a police sketch artist. - George Carlin

The art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on. - Henry H Ellis

All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography. - Frederico Fellini

An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have. - Andy Warhol

I should rather men ask why no statue has been erected in my honour, than why one has. - Marcus Porcius Cato

The man who is ostentatious of his modesty is twin to the statue that wears a fig-leaf. - Mark Twain

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

The art of art, the glory of expression, and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity. - Walt Whitman

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

In the cycle of a great civilization, the artist begins as priest, and ends as a clown or buffoon. - Malcolm Muggeridge

The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic slice of truth, wisdom, is dying out. - Walter Benjamin

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

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

Work like you don't need the money, dance like no one is watching, and love like you've never been hurt. - Mark Twain

Dance as if no one's watching, sing as if no one's listening, and live everyday as if it were your last. - Irish Proverb

As an experienced artist, I carry my work like a secret pregnancy. I am always aware of inner life and the need to protect it. - Julia Cameron

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

The only happy artist is a dead artist, because only then you can't change. After I die, I'll probably come back as a paintbrush. - Sylvester Stallone

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

Humility is becoming a lost art, but it's not difficult to practice. It means that you realize that others have been involved in your success. - Harvey Mackay