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All art is quite useless. - Oscar Wilde

Art is a revolt against fate. - Andre Malraux

Photographing a cake can be art. - Irving Penn

Illusion is the first of all pleasures. - Oscar Wilde

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

Our humor turns our anger into a fine art. - Mary Kay Blakely

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

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

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

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

Mathematical genius and artistic genius touch one another. - Gosta Mittag-Leffler

One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art. - Oscar Wilde

Dance is a delicate balance between perfection and beauty. - Unknown

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

Before they invented drawing boards, what did they go back to? - George Carlin

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

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

It is through art, and through art only, that we can realize our perfection. - Oscar Wilde

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance. - George Bernard Shaw

Dance isn't something that can be explained in words; it has to be danced. - Paige Arden

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

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. - Scott Adams

Like the cosmetics industry, the securities business is engaged in selling illusion. - Paul Samuelson

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature but beautiful old people are works of art. - Unknown

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

Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass; it's about learning to dance in the rain. - Vivian Greene

I like to put on a wig or a fake mustache and do something silly with friends, do a little dance. - Tom Lenk

I'd stay away from Ecstasy: this is a drug so strong it makes white people think they can dance. - Lenny Henry

Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself. - Bertrand Russell

Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings. - Vicki Baum

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

We've never been cool, we're hot. Irish people are Italians who can't dress, Jamaicans who can't dance. - Bono

When it began, cubism was a sort of analysis, which was no more painting than the description of physical phenomena was physics. - Juan Gris

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

Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. - Donald Trump

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