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All art is quite useless. - Oscar Wilde

The secret of life is in art. - Oscar Wilde

My trade and my art is living. - Michel De Montaigne

I view art as an inspirational tool. - Thomas Kincade

Illusion is the first of all pleasures. - Oscar Wilde

An art thief is a man who takes pictures. - George Carlin

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

All great art comes from a sense of outrage. - Glenn Close

Life is the art of drawing without an eraser. - John Gardner

I buried a lot of my ironing in the back yard. - Phyllis Diller

Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life. - Oscar Wilde

Making sushi is an art, and experience is everything. - Nobu Matsuhisa

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing. - Marcus Aurelius

Management is a practice where art, science, and craft meet. - Henry Mintzberg

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

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

In the haunted house of life, art is the only stair that doesn't creak. - Tom Robbins

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

You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul. - George Bernard Shaw

Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work. - Seth Godin

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

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease. - Voltaire

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

Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid. - Walter Winchell

Prophecy: The art and practice of selling one's credibility for future delivery. - Ambrose Bierce

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

Wishes and fears are illusions, Dil Bahadur, not realities. You must practice detachment. - Isabel Allende

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

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

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

Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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

I'm eighteen years behind in my ironing. There's no use doing it now, it doesn't fit anybody I know. - Phyllis Diller

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

The greatest achievement of humanity is not its works of art, science, or technology, but the recognition of its own dysfunction. - Eckhart Tolle

We would rather be ruined than changed. We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the moment and let our illusions die. - W H Auden

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

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

Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of words. - Franz Liszt