Dancing Tree

Art is the most beautiful of lies. - Claude Debussy

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

A little axe can cut down a big tree. - Jamaican Saying

Art is anything you can get away with. - Marshall McLuhan

Illusion is the first of all pleasures. - Oscar Wilde

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

All great art comes from a sense of outrage. - Glenn Close

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

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

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

Logic is neither science nor an art, but a dodge. - Benjamin Jowett

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

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

Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion. - Miguel de Unamuno

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

Character is the root of the tree; conduct, the fruit it bears. - E.M. Bounds

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

Zealotry: 1. The enemy of idealism; 2. What a tree salesman likes to do. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Out of suffering comes creativity. You cannot spell painting without pain. - John Lithgow

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

Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal. - Robert Louis Stevenson

Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on. - Robert Frost

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

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

When other little girls wanted to be ballet dancers, I kind of wanted to be a vampire. - Angelina Jolie

The man who is ostentatious of his modesty is twin to the statue that wears a fig-leaf. - Mark Twain

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. - Warren Buffett

The ballet toe shoe is one of the few instruments of torture to survive intact into our time. - Unknown

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

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. - Aristotle

The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a family all wrapped up in each other. - Bill Vaughan

Confidence, like art, never comes from having all the answers; it comes from being open to all the questions. - Earl Gray Stevens

Despite all our toil and progress, the art of medicine still falls somewhere between trout casting and spook writing. - Ben Hecht

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

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

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

On the top of the Crumpetty Tree
The Quangle Wangle sat,
But his face you could not see,
On account of his Beaver Hat. - Edward Lear

You can imagine me as a kid growing up in redneck Texas with ballet shoes, tucking the violin under my arm. I had to fight my way up. - Patrick Swayze

Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it was stupid. - Albert Einstein

Art owes its origin to nature. This beautiful creation supplied the first model, while the original teacher was that divine intelligence. - Giorgio Vasari