The Truth

Life is brief, art is long. - Hippocrates

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

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

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

We have art to save ourselves from the truth. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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

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

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

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth. - Ludwig Borne

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday. - Don Marquis

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

Art is the demonstration that the ordinary is extraordinary. - Amedee Ozenfant

Advertising is the greatest art form of the twentieth century. - Marshall McLuhan

Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between. - David Letterman

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul. - Joseph Addison

There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome. - Andre Gide

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

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

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

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

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

The knowledge from an enlightened person breaks on the hard rocks of ignorance. - Mahesh Yogi

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

I love contemporary art, although I wouldn't want a pickled shark in my house. - Bruno Tonioli

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

Like the cosmetics industry, the securities business is engaged in selling illusion. - Paul Samuelson

Love melts the rigor which the rocks have bred; a flint will break upon a feather bed. - John Cleveland

The man who is ostentatious of his modesty is twin to the statue that wears a fig-leaf. - Mark Twain

We should be as water, which is lower than all things yet stronger even than the rocks. - Sioux Proverb

When Jack Benny has a party, you not only bring your own scotch, you bring your own rocks. - George Burns

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

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

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

Confidence, like art, never comes from having all the answers; it comes from being open to all the questions. - Earl Gray Stevens

I feel strongly that the visual arts are of vast importance. Of course I could be prejudiced. I am a visual art. - Kermit The Frog

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy. - Groucho Marx

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

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other. - Voltaire

Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of words. - Franz Liszt