Trouser Iron

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

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

Art is the signature of civilizations. - Beverly Sills

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

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

We have art to save ourselves from the truth. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home. - Twyla Tharp

Art is not what you see, but what you make others see. - Degas

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

The art of communication is the language of leadership. - James Humes

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

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

We need a leader that wrote "The Art of the Deal". - Donald Trump

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

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

Some of my best friends are illusions. Been sustaining me for years. - Sheila Ballantyne

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

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

A man loses his illusions first, his teeth second, and his follies last. - Helen Rowland

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

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

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

Dancing is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made. - Ted Shawn

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

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

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

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. - Aristotle

Leadership: The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. - Dwight D Eisenhower

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

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece. - Ludwig Erhard

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

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

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

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy. - Groucho Marx

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