The Truth

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

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

Geologists have a saying - rocks remember. - Neil Armstrong

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

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

The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks. - Tennessee Williams

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art. - Susan Sontag

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

Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity. - Yoko Ono

Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art. - Claude Debussy

Life doesn't imitate art; it imitates bad television. - Woody Allen

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

It's so much easier to throw rocks than it is to govern. - Karen Bass

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

The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure. - Dale Carnegie

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

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The art of mothering is to teach the art of living to children. - Elaine Heffner

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

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

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

There's no need for a piece of sculpture in a home that has a cat. - Wesley Bates

There are moments when Art almost attains to the dignity of manual labor. - Oscar Wilde

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

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

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

Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. - William Congreve

It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art. - Oscar Wilde

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

Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. - Gunter Grass

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

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

A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left. - Alexander Pope

I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast. - Viktor Frankl

Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted in spite of your changing moods. - C S Lewis

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. - Albert Einstein

It was so quiet, a reservation kind of quiet, where you can hear somebody drinking whiskey on the rocks three miles away. - Sherman Alexie

Some men's ambition is art, some men's ambition is fame, some men's ambition is gold. My ambition is the souls of men. - William Booth

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

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