The Truth

Art is the most beautiful of lies. - Claude Debussy

I view art as an inspirational tool. - Thomas Kincade

Art is the signature of civilizations. - Beverly Sills

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

Education is the art of making man ethical. - Georg Hegel

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

The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks. - Tennessee Williams

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. - Pablo Picasso

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

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

If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion. - Noam Chomsky

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

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

The art of mothering is to teach the art of living to children. - Elaine Heffner

Stand-up comedy is an art form and it dies unless you expand it. - Sam Kinison

Art doesn't reproduce the visible but rather makes it visible. - Paul Klee

The Iranians and Persians are excellent at the art of negotiation. - Donald Trump

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

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

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

Never say never because limits, like fears, are often just an illusion. - Michael Jordan

The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes. - Tony Blair

All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography. - Frederico Fellini

I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough? - Vincent van Gogh

How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance. - Petrarch

The practice of art isn't to make a living. It's to make your soul grow. - Kurt Vonnegut

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

Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid. - Walter Winchell

Love melts the rigor which the rocks have bred; a flint will break upon a feather bed. - John Cleveland

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. - Albert Einstein

The person that turns over the most rocks wins the game. And that's always been my philosophy. - Peter Lynch

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. - Aristotle

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

'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.' - W H Auden

I feel strongly that the visual arts are of vast importance. Of course I could be prejudiced. I am a visual art. - Kermit The Frog

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

Toy Soldiers was my introduction to film. I certainly didn't think I was doing art by any stretch of the imagination. - Tim Robbins

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

The greatest achievement of humanity is not its works of art, science, or technology, but the recognition of its own dysfunction. - Eckhart Tolle