Hallway Detour

Everyone needs a fantasy. - Andy Warhol

Art is a revolt against fate. - Andre Malraux

Dust thou art, to dust returnest. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

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

Live out of your imagination, not your history. - Stephen R. Covey

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

The art of government is the organization of idolatry. - George Bernard Shaw

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

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

Art is the demonstration that the ordinary is extraordinary. - Amedee Ozenfant

I've always enjoyed living in a fantasy world, daydreaming. - James Duval

Art doesn't reproduce the visible but rather makes it visible. - Paul Klee

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination. - Voltaire

There are moments when Art almost attains to the dignity of manual labor. - Oscar Wilde

Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. - John Dewey

Last night at Carnegie Hall, Jack Benny played Mendelssohn. Mendelssohn lost. - Harold C. Schonberg

Here you leave today and enter the world of yesterday, tomorrow, and fantasy. - Walt Disney

Italy is the home of art and swindling; home of religion and moral rottenness. - Mark Twain

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

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art. - Eleanor Roosevelt

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

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality. - Irish Murdoch

There's a big overlap with the people you meet at the fantasy and science fiction cons. - Fred Saberhagen

The fantasy of every Australian man is to have two women - one cleaning and the other dusting. - Maurenn Murphy

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

Our fears are more numerous than our dangers, and we suffer more in our imagination than in reality. - Seneca

I like grey characters; fantasy for too long has been focused on very stereotypical heroes and villains. - George R.R. Martin

What's the earth with all its art, verse, music, worth -
Compared with love, found, gained, and kept? - Robert Browning

Art is made to disturb. Science reassures. There is only one valuable thin in art: the thing you cannot explain. - Georges Braque

The minute there's a map, there is no art. Paint by numbers is not art. Paint by numbers is a mechanical activity. - Seth Godin

An expert problem solver must be endowed with two incompatible qualities: a restless imagination and a patient pertinacity. - Howard Eves

There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination. - Edmund Burke

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

We would rather be ruined than changed. We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the moment and let our illusions die. - W H Auden

You will recognize your own path when you come upon it because you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever need. - Sara Teasdale

Running! If there's any activity happier, more exhilarating, more nourishing to the imagination, I can't imagine what it might be. - Joyce Carol Oates

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