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All art is quite useless. - Oscar Wilde

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

History develops, art stands still. - E.M. Forster

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

If that's art, I'm a Hottentot! - Harry S Truman

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

Maintenance is as much art as it is science. - Unknown

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

Art is either a plagiarist or a revolutionist. - Paul Gauguin

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

Making sushi is an art, and experience is everything. - Nobu Matsuhisa

Art is making something out of nothing and selling it. - Frank Zappa

What a strange illusion to suppose that beauty is goodness. - Leo Tolstoy

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

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

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

Some of my best friends are illusions. Been sustaining me for years. - Sheila Ballantyne

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

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

Life beats down and crushes the soul, but art reminds you that you have one. - Stella Adler

The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you. - Oscar Wilde

Oh, if it be to choose and call thee mine, love, thou art every day my Valentine! - Thomas Hood

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. - Scott Adams

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

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge. - Daniel J. Boorstin

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

Wishes and fears are illusions, Dil Bahadur, not realities. You must practice detachment. - Isabel Allende

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

Writing is very much a playground - an artistic playground. It's the most fun thing I do. - Shania Twain

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad. - Salvador Dali

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

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

Psychiatry is the art of teaching people how to stand on their own two feet while reclining on couches. - Sigmund Freud

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

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached. - Simone Weil

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

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

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

Art owes its origin to nature. This beautiful creation supplied the first model, while the original teacher was that divine intelligence. - Giorgio Vasari