Missing Piece Statue

Art is the most beautiful of lies. - Claude Debussy

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

Politics is the art of the possible. - Otto von Bismarck

Illusion is the first of all pleasures. - Oscar Wilde

Art is a house that tries to be haunted. - Emily Dickinson

Any idealism is a proper subject for art. - Lafcadio Hearn

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

I teach the art of turning anguish into delight. - Georges Bataille

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

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

Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing. - Robert Benchley

Art in nature is rhythmic and has a horror of constraint. - Robert Delaunay

Management is a practice where art, science, and craft meet. - Henry Mintzberg

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

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

If you don't think every day is a good day, just try missing one. - Cavett Robert

Has anyone noticed that in heaven all the interesting men are missing? - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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

The art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on. - Henry H Ellis

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

Anyone who says you can't see a thought simply doesn't know art. - Wynetka Ann Reynolds

Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart go together. - John Ruskin

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

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

To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine. - Henry Ward Beecher

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

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

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

It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art. - Oscar Wilde

Prophecy: The art and practice of selling one's credibility for future delivery. - Ambrose Bierce

A half finished shawl left on the coffee table isn't a mess; it's an object of art. - Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

I have discovered the art of fooling diplomats. I speak the truth, and they never believe me. - Camillo Di Cavour

In my house on the ceilings I have paintings of the rooms above, so I never have to go upstairs. - Steven Wright

Visual storytelling of one kind or another has been around since cavemen were drawing on the walls. - Frank Darabont

Art is a human activity having for its purpose the transmission to others of the highest and best feelings. - Leo Tolstoy

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

The biggest thing separating people from their artistic ambitions is not a lack of talent. It's the lack of a deadline. - Chris Baty

When it began, cubism was a sort of analysis, which was no more painting than the description of physical phenomena was physics. - Juan Gris

The birch-bark canoe of the savage seems to me one of the most beautiful and perfect things of the kind constructed by human art. - William C. Bryant

Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen. - Pablo Picasso