The Truth

Art is the signature of civilizations. - Beverly Sills

Call on God, but row away from the rocks. - Indian Proverb

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

Inflation: everyone's illusion of wealth - Unknown

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

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

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery. - Mark Van Doren

Illusion is the dust the devil throws in the eyes of the foolish. - Minna Antrim

The Iranians and Persians are excellent at the art of negotiation. - Donald Trump

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

I'm a guy who can't function well in life, but I can in art. - Woody Allen

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

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

The art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on. - Henry H Ellis

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

Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. - John Kenneth Galbraith

I have to get inspired by something that touches my soul, or rocks my soul. - Steven Tyler

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

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

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

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. - Scott Adams

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

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

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

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

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art. - Eleanor Roosevelt

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

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

Shopping: The fine art of acquiring things you don't need with money you don't have. - Unknown

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

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. - Aristotle

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

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

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

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

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