Missing Piece Statue

Life is brief, art is long. - Hippocrates

The secret of life is in art. - Oscar Wilde

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

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

The human body is the best work of art. - Jess C. Scott

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

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

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

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

The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity. - Douglas Horton

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

In heaven all the interesting people are missing. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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

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

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

Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory. - Oscar Wilde

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

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting. - Sun Tzu

Illusion is the dust the devil throws in the eyes of the foolish. - Minna Antrim

It is a symbol of Irish art. The cracked looking-glass of a servant. - James Joyce

The fine art of preparing sushi is something that you watch and learn. - Nobu Matsuhisa

To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy. - Will Durant

Our separation from each other is an optical illusion of consciousness. - Albert Einstein

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

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

The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity. - Andre Gide

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. - George Bernard Shaw

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

Anyone who thinks the art of conversation is dead ought to tell a child to go to bed. - Robert Gallagher

Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out. - Criss Jami

My love life is terrible. The last time I was inside a woman was when I visited the Statue of Liberty. - Woody Allen

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

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

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

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

Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor. - Andre Gide

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