Reflective Art

Art is a revolt against fate. - Andre Malraux

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

The man with no imagination has no wings. - Muhammad Ali

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

I'm not making art, I'm making sushi. - Masaharu Morimoto

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

The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity. - Douglas Horton

Where there is no imagination there is no horror. - Arthur Conan Doyle

One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art. - Oscar Wilde

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

Liberty: One of Imagination's most previous possessions. - Ambrose Bierce

Your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions. - Albert Einstein

I have too many fantasies to be a housewife. I guess I am a fantasy. - Marilyn Monroe

Tact is the art of convincing people that they know more than you do. - Raymond Mortimer

A really well made buttonhole is the only link between art and nature. - Oscar Wilde

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

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

In the haunted house of life, art is the only stair that doesn't creak. - Tom Robbins

Where beams of imagination play,
The memory's soft figures melt away. - Alexander Pope

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

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease. - Voltaire

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

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. - Albert Einstein

Humans need fantasy to be human. To be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape. - Terry Pratchett

If you turn the imagination loose like a hunting dog, it will often return with the bird in its mouth. - William Maxwell

I think Nature's imagination is so much greater than man's, she's never gonna let us relax! - Richard P Feynman

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

'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.' - W H Auden

Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself. - Bertrand Russell

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

To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way. - E M Forster

Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message. - Malcolm Muggeridge

Despite all our toil and progress, the art of medicine still falls somewhere between trout casting and spook writing. - Ben Hecht

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

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

The greatest achievement of humanity is not its works of art, science, or technology, but the recognition of its own dysfunction. - Eckhart Tolle

We would rather be ruined than changed. We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the moment and let our illusions die. - W H Auden

When you talk about fantasy, the usual problem is that whilst you've got the world of imagination, there are no controlling forces. - Raymond E. Feist

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