The Truth

Illusion is the first of all pleasures. - Oscar Wilde

One does not marry art. One ravishes it. - Edgar Degas

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

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so. - Douglas Adams

Call on God, but row away from the rocks. - Indian Proverb

All great art comes from a sense of outrage. - Glenn Close

Art is not what you see, but what you make others see. - Degas

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

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

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing. - Marcus Aurelius

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

What a strange illusion to suppose that beauty is goodness. - Leo Tolstoy

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

Management is a practice where art, science, and craft meet. - Henry Mintzberg

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

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

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

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls. - Pablo Picasso

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. - Thomas Merton

A really well made buttonhole is the only link between art and nature. - Oscar Wilde

Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature? - Charles Baudelaire

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

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

We have art so that we do not die of reality. Reality is too much with us. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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

Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. - John Kenneth Galbraith

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

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

Jealousy is the art of counting someone else's blessings instead of your own. - Unknown

When Jack Benny has a party, you not only bring your own scotch, you bring your own rocks. - George Burns

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

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

I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast. - Viktor Frankl

What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet. - Woody Allen

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. - Albert Einstein

To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way. - E M Forster

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

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

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

For me, the drive is storytelling. To be a part of an art that tells a story and to be a catalyst, a color in that, is very exciting. - Alden Ehrenreich