Adhesive Shade

Dust thou art, to dust returnest. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

History develops, art stands still. - E.M. Forster

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

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

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

The power of imagination makes us infinite. - John Muir

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

Politics is the art of controlling your environment. - Hunter S. Thompson

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

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but imagination. - Immanuel Kant

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery. - Mark Van Doren

I have little feet because nothing grows in the shade. - Dolly Parton

Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one. - Terry Pratchett

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

The imagination is the secret and marrow of civilization. - Henry Ward Beecher

One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art. - Oscar Wilde

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade. - Leo Buscaglia

With a treehouse and a little imagination, we can go anywhere. - Unknown

I've always enjoyed living in a fantasy world, daydreaming. - James Duval

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

I always had a fantasy of being a chef, because I like kitchen life. - Geoffrey Rush

Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination. - 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

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

Diplomacy is the art of saying, "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock. - Will Rogers

Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character. - James Russel Lowell

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

Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination. - Ernest Hemingway

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

I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination. - John Keats

A certificate of live birth is not the same thing by any stretch of the imagination as a birth certificate. - Donald Trump

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

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

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

The minute there's a map, there is no art. Paint by numbers is not art. Paint by numbers is a mechanical activity. - Seth Godin

We all know that art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. - Pablo Picasso

Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting, or living itself, which is the greatest art of all. - Ray Bradbury

There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination. - Edmund Burke

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