Potting Pot

All art is quite useless. - Oscar Wilde

A great nation deserves great art. - Art Delage

Art is the most beautiful of lies. - Claude Debussy

Tea is a religion of the art of life. - Okakura Kakuzo

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

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

Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace. - Oscar Wilde

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

Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity. - Yoko Ono

Art is the demonstration that the ordinary is extraordinary. - Amedee Ozenfant

The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection. - Mechelangelo di Lodovico

In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport. - Julia Child

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

Oratory is the art of making a loud noise seem like a deep thought. - American Proverb

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

There's no need for a piece of sculpture in a home that has a cat. - Wesley Bates

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

The art challenges the technology, and the technology inspires the art. - John Lasseter

The art of conversation is the art of hearing as well as of being heard. - William Hazlitt

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

Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing. - Ralph Richardson

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

Dancing is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made. - Ted Shawn

Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work. - Seth Godin

The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity. - Andre Gide

Free will is an illusion. People always choose the perceived path of greatest pleasure. - Scott Adams

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art. - Eleanor Roosevelt

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

Leadership is the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done. - Vance Packard

The illusion that the times that were are better than those that are has probably pervaded all ages. - Horace Greeley

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece. - Ludwig Erhard

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

Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. - Donald Trump

Love easily confuses us because it is always in flux between illusion and substance, between memory and wish, between contentment and need. - Tom Robbins

I definitely believe marijuana helps with menstruation. Since I started smoking pot, my girlfriend’s period has become painless for me. - Randy Kagan

I adore art. When I am alone with my notes, my heart pounds and the tears stream from my eyes, and my emotion and my joys are too much to bear. - Guiseppe Verdi