Missing Piece Statue

A great nation deserves great art. - Art Delage

Art is the most beautiful of lies. - Claude Debussy

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

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

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

Art is not what you see, but what you make others see. - Degas

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

When one person is missing the whole world seems empty. - Pat Schweibert

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

Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory. - Oscar Wilde

Before they invented drawing boards, what did they go back to? - George Carlin

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

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

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

It is a symbol of Irish art. The cracked looking-glass of a servant. - James Joyce

Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it. - Robert Motherwell

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

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

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

The art of conversation is the art of hearing as well as of being heard. - William Hazlitt

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

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

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

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality. - Irish Murdoch

The art of art, the glory of expression, and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity. - Walt Whitman

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

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

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. - Albert Einstein

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. - John Kenneth Galbraith

Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings. - Vicki Baum

Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and acitivty of man's nature. - Robert South

Outcomes rarely turn on grand gestures or the art of the deal, but on whether you've sent someone a thank-you note. - Bernie Brillstein

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

The physician should look upon the patient as a besieged city and try to rescue him with every means that art and science place at his command. - Alexander of Tralles