The Truth

The secret of life is in art. - Oscar Wilde

Art is the most beautiful of lies. - Claude Debussy

I view art as an inspirational tool. - Thomas Kincade

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

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so. - Douglas Adams

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

Vision is the art of seeing things invisible. - Jonathan Swift

Politics is the art of controlling your environment. - Hunter S. Thompson

The 'Earth' without art is just 'eh'. - Unknown

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

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

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

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

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. - Albert Einstein

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

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

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

Art doesn't reproduce the visible but rather makes it visible. - Paul Klee

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls. - Pablo Picasso

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known. - Oscar Wilde

We have art so that we do not die of reality. Reality is too much with us. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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

Life beats down and crushes the soul, but art reminds you that you have one. - Stella Adler

How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance. - Petrarch

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

Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on. - Robert Frost

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

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature but beautiful old people are works of art. - Unknown

Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experience treacherous, judgment difficult. - Hypocrites

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

The person that turns over the most rocks wins the game. And that's always been my philosophy. - Peter Lynch

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

Never pay attention to what critics say. Remember, a statue has never been set up in honor of a critic. - Jean Sibelius

The minute there's a map, there is no art. Paint by numbers is not art. Paint by numbers is a mechanical activity. - Seth Godin

If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him. - John F Kennedy

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

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

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

Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. - Donald Trump

Art owes its origin to nature. This beautiful creation supplied the first model, while the original teacher was that divine intelligence. - Giorgio Vasari