The Truth

Art is anything you can get away with. - Marshall McLuhan

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

One does not marry art. One ravishes it. - Edgar Degas

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

Maintenance is as much art as it is science. - Unknown

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

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

The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook. - William James

God is not interested in your art but, your heart. - Ifeanyi E. Onuoha

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

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

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

What a strange illusion to suppose that beauty is goodness. - Leo Tolstoy

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

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting. - Sun Tzu

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

The fine art of preparing sushi is something that you watch and learn. - Nobu Matsuhisa

Our separation from each other is an optical illusion of consciousness. - Albert Einstein

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

Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing. - Ralph Richardson

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

The practice of art isn't to make a living. It's to make your soul grow. - Kurt Vonnegut

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

The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions which have been hidden by the answers. - James Baldwin

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

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

A half finished shawl left on the coffee table isn't a mess; it's an object of art. - Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality. - Irish Murdoch

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

What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying. - Oscar Wilde

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

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad. - Salvador Dali

The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient, whilst Mother Nature takes care of the cure. - Voltaire

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

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

It is our art that has an opportunity to leave a footprint in the sand. They don't wrap fish in our work. - Hugh N Jacobsen

Art is made to disturb. Science reassures. There is only one valuable thin in art: the thing you cannot explain. - Georges Braque

Despite all our toil and progress, the art of medicine still falls somewhere between trout casting and spook writing. - Ben Hecht

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

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