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Art is a revolt against fate. - Andre Malraux

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

Illusion is the first of all pleasures. - Oscar Wilde

If that's art, I'm a Hottentot! - Harry S Truman

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

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

Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence. - Joseph Krutch

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

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

Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace. - Oscar Wilde

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

The 'Earth' without art is just 'eh'. - Unknown

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

A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art. - Paul Cezanne

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

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

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

The new job of art is to sit on the wall and get more expensive. - Robert Hughes

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

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

The art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on. - Henry H Ellis

Anyone who says you can't see a thought simply doesn't know art. - Wynetka Ann Reynolds

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

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

I love contemporary art, although I wouldn't want a pickled shark in my house. - Bruno Tonioli

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

Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it. - Laurence J Peter

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

I have discovered the art of fooling diplomats. I speak the truth, and they never believe me. - Camillo Di Cavour

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

Dreams or illusions, call them what you will, they lift us from the commonplace of life to better things. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

'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

Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting, or living itself, which is the greatest art of all. - Ray Bradbury

Some men's ambition is art, some men's ambition is fame, some men's ambition is gold. My ambition is the souls of men. - William Booth

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival. - C S Lewis

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