Hallway Detour

All art is quite useless. - Oscar Wilde

Art is a revolt against fate. - Andre Malraux

All of nature is God's art. - Dante

An idea is salvation by imagination. - Frank Lloyd Wright

Art is the signature of civilizations. - Beverly Sills

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

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

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

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

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

The art of being a slave is to rule one's master. - Diogenes

Art is making something out of nothing and selling it. - Frank Zappa

The great instrument of moral good is the imagination. - Percy Bysshe Shelley

Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Life doesn't imitate art; it imitates bad television. - Woody Allen

The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure. - Dale Carnegie

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

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

The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes. - Tony Blair

All things, in their way, reflect heavenly truth, the imagination not least. - C S Lewis

Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work. - Seth Godin

Propaganda is the art of persuading others of what you don't believe yourself. - Abba Eban

Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. - Gunter Grass

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

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

Leadership is the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done. - Vance Packard

His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs but there will never be equality in the servants' hall. - James M Barrie

Build. Destroy. Rebuild. I've mastered the art of bouncing back. Now to master the art of not having to. - Unknown

All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination. - Carl Jung

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

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

The public has an appetite for anything about imagination: anything that is far away from reality as is creatively possible. - Steven Spielberg

We all know that art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. - Pablo Picasso

The greatest achievement of humanity is not its works of art, science, or technology, but the recognition of its own dysfunction. - Eckhart Tolle

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

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

Stretching the capabilities of my imagination is a crucial aspect of writing fiction; you could think of it as a mental form of athleticism. - Julia Glass

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

Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever. - Noam Chomsky