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Art is a revolt against fate. - Andre Malraux

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

Art is the signature of civilizations. - Beverly Sills

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so. - Douglas Adams

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

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

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

Truth is simple, requiring neither study nor art. - Ammian

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

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

Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art. - F Scott Fitzgerald

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday. - Don Marquis

Art in nature is rhythmic and has a horror of constraint. - Robert Delaunay

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

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

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

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

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

Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it. - Robert Motherwell

The great art of life is sensation; to feel that we exist, even in pain. - Lord Byron

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

Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly. - Morticia Addams

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can inspire. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

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

The only time I ever enjoyed ironing was the day I accidentally got gin in the steam iron. - Phyllis Diller

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist but you have ceased to live. - Mark Twain

What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet. - Woody Allen

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

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

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

'Tis not always in a physician's power to cure the sick; at times the disease is stronger than trained art. - Ovid

Outcomes rarely turn on grand gestures or the art of the deal, but on whether you've sent someone a thank-you note. - Bernie Brillstein

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

Toy Soldiers was my introduction to film. I certainly didn't think I was doing art by any stretch of the imagination. - Tim Robbins

For me, the drive is storytelling. To be a part of an art that tells a story and to be a catalyst, a color in that, is very exciting. - Alden Ehrenreich

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