The Truth

Art is a revolt against fate. - Andre Malraux

Dust thou art, to dust returnest. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

The modern work of art is a symbol. - Herbert Read

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

Our humor turns our anger into a fine art. - Mary Kay Blakely

Education is the art of making man ethical. - Georg Hegel

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

Love the art in yourself, not yourself in the art. - Constantin Stanislavski

The art of a people is a true mirror to their minds. - Jawaharlal Nehru

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

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

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

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

The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection. - Mechelangelo di Lodovico

The call of love sounds very hollow among these immobile rocks. - Gustav Mahler

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

NyQuil on the rocks, for when you're feeling sick but sociable. - Mitch Hedberg

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

The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much. - William Hazlitt

All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography. - Frederico Fellini

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

I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough? - Vincent van Gogh

Italy is the home of art and swindling; home of religion and moral rottenness. - Mark Twain

Diplomacy is the art of saying, "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock. - Will Rogers

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

Anyone who thinks the art of conversation is dead ought to tell a child to go to bed. - Robert Gallagher

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge. - Daniel J. Boorstin

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

Art is the right hand of nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men. - Friedrich Schiller

Art is a human activity having for its purpose the transmission to others of the highest and best feelings. - Leo Tolstoy

What's the earth with all its art, verse, music, worth -
Compared with love, found, gained, and kept? - Robert Browning

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

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living. - Frederic Amiel

Logic: the art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. - Ambrose Bierce

Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor. - Andre Gide

Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other. - Oscar Ameringer

The physician should look upon the patient as a besieged city and try to rescue him with every means that art and science place at his command. - Alexander of Tralles

Humility is becoming a lost art, but it's not difficult to practice. It means that you realize that others have been involved in your success. - Harvey Mackay