The Truth

Life is brief, art is long. - Hippocrates

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

Our humor turns our anger into a fine art. - Mary Kay Blakely

Geologists have a saying - rocks remember. - Neil Armstrong

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

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

Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life. - Oscar Wilde

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

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

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

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday. - Don Marquis

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

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting. - Sun Tzu

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

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul. - Joseph Addison

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

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

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

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

The great art of life is sensation; to feel that we exist, even in pain. - Lord Byron

There are moments when Art almost attains to the dignity of manual labor. - Oscar Wilde

Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly. - Morticia Addams

Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises. - Samuel Butler

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

The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them. - Bernard M Baruch

Anyone who thinks the art of conversation is dead ought to tell a child to go to bed. - Robert Gallagher

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

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

Shopping: The fine art of acquiring things you don't need with money you don't have. - Unknown

A blind man can make art if what is in his mind can be passed to another mind in some tangible form. - Sol LeWitt

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

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 minute there's a map, there is no art. Paint by numbers is not art. Paint by numbers is a mechanical activity. - Seth Godin

Logic: the art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. - Ambrose Bierce

Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor. - Andre Gide

Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other. - Oscar Ameringer

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

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival. - C S Lewis

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