The Truth

Art is anything you can get away with. - Marshall McLuhan

Illusion is the first of all pleasures. - Oscar Wilde

Inflation: everyone's illusion of wealth - Unknown

Vision is the art of seeing things invisible. - Jonathan Swift

Life is the art of drawing without an eraser. - John Gardner

Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence. - Joseph Krutch

Truth is simple, requiring neither study nor art. - Ammian

The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook. - William James

Good work rarely sells. I believe this of any art. - Arthur W Pinero

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

The 'Earth' without art is just 'eh'. - Unknown

The art of communication is the language of leadership. - James Humes

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

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

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

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

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

The call of love sounds very hollow among these immobile rocks. - Gustav Mahler

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

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

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

The knowledge from an enlightened person breaks on the hard rocks of ignorance. - Mahesh Yogi

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

Diplomacy is the art of saying, "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock. - Will Rogers

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

Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. - Gunter Grass

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

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

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

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

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

Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted in spite of your changing moods. - C S Lewis

Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message. - Malcolm Muggeridge

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living. - Frederic Amiel

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

Art is the window to man's soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see the man within. - Claudia Johnson