The Truth

Art is a revolt against fate. - Andre Malraux

Photographing a cake can be art. - Irving Penn

Art is the most beautiful of lies. - Claude Debussy

The human body is the best work of art. - Jess C. Scott

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

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

God is not interested in your art but, your heart. - Ifeanyi E. Onuoha

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

The art of a people is a true mirror to their minds. - Jawaharlal Nehru

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

Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion. - Miguel de Unamuno

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

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

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

Illusion is the dust the devil throws in the eyes of the foolish. - Minna Antrim

It is a symbol of Irish art. The cracked looking-glass of a servant. - James Joyce

Tact is the art of convincing people that they know more than you do. - Raymond Mortimer

The fine art of preparing sushi is something that you watch and learn. - Nobu Matsuhisa

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

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

In the haunted house of life, art is the only stair that doesn't creak. - Tom Robbins

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

I have to get inspired by something that touches my soul, or rocks my soul. - Steven Tyler

It is through art, and through art only, that we can realize our perfection. - Oscar Wilde

I love contemporary art, although I wouldn't want a pickled shark in my house. - Bruno Tonioli

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. - George Bernard Shaw

The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions which have been hidden by the answers. - James Baldwin

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

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

It's amazing what you can do with an E in A-Level art, a twisted imagination and a chainsaw. - Damien Hirst

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

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

'Tis not always in a physician's power to cure the sick; at times the disease is stronger than trained art. - Ovid

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

If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him. - John F Kennedy

The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind. - Paracelsus

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