Adhesive Shade

Art is a revolt against fate. - Andre Malraux

Tea is a religion of the art of life. - Okakura Kakuzo

All great art comes from a sense of outrage. - Glenn Close

The human race is governed by its imagination. - Napoleon Bonaparte

Noise creates illusions. Silence brings truth. - Maxime Lagace

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

Never have a companion who casts you in the shade. - Baltasar Gracian

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

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

The art of being a slave is to rule one's master. - Diogenes

The art of government is the organization of idolatry. - George Bernard Shaw

We need a leader that wrote "The Art of the Deal". - Donald Trump

If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion. - Noam Chomsky

The new job of art is to sit on the wall and get more expensive. - Robert Hughes

The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates. - Oscar Wilde

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

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

Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature? - Charles Baudelaire

To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy. - Will Durant

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

The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity. - Andre Gide

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. - George Bernard Shaw

Use your imagination not to scare yourself to death but to inspire yourself to life. - Adele Brookman

Imagination, of course, can open any door - turn the key and let terror walk right in. - Truman Capote

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

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

There's a big overlap with the people you meet at the fantasy and science fiction cons. - Fred Saberhagen

Such a figure, that imagination cannot form an idea of a fury from hell, to look more frightful. - Charles Johnson

Art is the right hand of nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men. - Friedrich Schiller

Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it. - Dwight D Eisenhower

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

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

What your mind sees when you close your eyes marks the entrance to an endless universe: your imagination. - Stephen Helmes

The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are. - Samuel Johnson

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

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

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

People ask about art and commercialism. I think that if someone tries to sell their work at a high price, that is the wrong way of doing it. - Yayoi Kusama

Humility is becoming a lost art, but it's not difficult to practice. It means that you realize that others have been involved in your success. - Harvey Mackay

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