The Truth

Photographing a cake can be art. - Irving Penn

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

Art is the most beautiful of lies. - Claude Debussy

What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art. - Augustus Saint-Gaudens

Inflation: everyone's illusion of wealth - Unknown

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

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

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

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

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

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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

I'm a guy who can't function well in life, but I can in art. - Woody Allen

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

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

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

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

Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. - William Congreve

Propaganda is the art of persuading others of what you don't believe yourself. - Abba Eban

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

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

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

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

We should be as water, which is lower than all things yet stronger even than the rocks. - Sioux Proverb

Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experience treacherous, judgment difficult. - Hypocrites

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better. - Andre Gide

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

My love life is terrible. The last time I was inside a woman was when I visited the Statue of Liberty. - Woody Allen

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

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

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. - John Kenneth Galbraith

It is our art that has an opportunity to leave a footprint in the sand. They don't wrap fish in our work. - Hugh N Jacobsen

The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up. - Jay Leno

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

Despite all our toil and progress, the art of medicine still falls somewhere between trout casting and spook writing. - Ben Hecht

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy. - Groucho Marx

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

Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of words. - Franz Liszt