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Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth. ...
by Pablo Picasso

Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
- Pablo Picasso

Only put off until tomorrow
what you are willing to die having left undone.
- Pablo Picasso

Your life is the manifestation of your dream;
it is an art.
You can change your life anytime if
you aren't enjoying the dream.
- don Miguel Ruiz

Besides the noble art of getting things done,
there is the noble art of leaving things undone.
The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.
- Lin Yutang

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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Motivation is the art of getting people to do
what you want them to do because they want to do it.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

Courage is the art of being the only one
who knows you're scared to death.
- Earl Wilson

Tell me what company thou keepst,
and I'll tell thee what thou art.
- Miguel de Cervantes

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference.
The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference.
And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.
- Elie Wiesel

The art of acceptance is the art of making someone
who has just done you a small favor
wish that he might have done you a greater one.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity
in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
- Albert Einstein

Just smiling goes a long way toward
making you feel better about life.
And when you feel better about life, your life is better.
- Art Linkletter

The sculptor produces the beautiful statue
by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed -
it is a process of elimination.
- Elbert Hubbard

Be slow to fall into friendship;
but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
- Socrates

Things turn out best for the people
who make the best of the way things turn out.
- Art Linkletter

The whole art of teaching is only the art
of awakening the natural curiosity
of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
- Anatole France

People say conversation is a lost art;
how often I have wished it were.
- Edward R. Murrow

Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.
- Mae West

Whatever your work and whatever its worth,
No matter how strong or clever,
Some one will sneer if you pause to hear,
And scoff at your best endeavor.
For the target art has a broad expanse,
And wherever you chance to hit it,
Though close be your aim to the bull's-eye fame,
There are those who will never admit it.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Like music and art, love of nature is a common language
that can transcend political or social boundaries.
- Jimmy Carter

Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training,
for it trains people as to how they should think.
- Arthur Schopenhauer

The difference between men friends and women friends
is that men tend to do things together,
women tend to just be together.
- Art Jahnke

Take time today to appreciate beauty -
natural beauty, art, people.
Slow down, breathe deeply, smile.
It's a beautiful world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge
on their children rather than virtue,
the art of speaking well rather than doing well;
but their manners should be of the greatest concern.
- R. Buckminster Fuller

In a relationship, when does the art of compromise become compromising?
- Sarah Jessica Parker

It is curious to observe what different
ideals of happiness people cherish,
and in what singular places they look
for this well-spring of their life.
Many look for it in the hoarding of riches,
some in the pride of power,
and others in the achievements of art and literature;
a few seek it in the exploration of their own minds,
or in search for knowledge.
- Helen Keller

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
It is the source of all true art and all science.
He to whom this emotion is a stranger,
who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe,
is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.
- Albert Einstein

It is the function of art to renew our perception.
What we are familiar with we cease to see.
The writer shakes up the familiar scene,
and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.
- Anais Nin

The highest art is always the most religious,
and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
- Abraham Lincoln

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy
in creative expression and knowledge.
- Albert Einstein

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

Space is the breath of art.
- Frank Lloyd Wright

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

True art is characterized by an irresistible
urge in the creative artist.
- Albert Einstein

Simplicity and repose are qualities
that measure the true value of any work of art.
- Frank Lloyd Wright

Beyond mind, there is an awareness that is intrinsic,
that is not given to you by the outside, and is not an idea -
and there is no experiment up to now
that has found any center in the brain
which corresponds to awareness.
The whole work of meditation is
to make you aware of all that is "mind"
and disidentify yourself from it.
That very separation is the
greatest revolution that can happen to man.
Now you can do and act on only that
which makes you more joyous, fulfills you,
gives you contentment, makes your life a work of art, a beauty.
But this is possible only if the master in you is awake.
- Osho

Without tradition, art is a
flock of sheep without a shepherd.
Without innovation, it is a corpse.
- Winston Churchill

If art is to nourish the roots of our culture,
society must set the artist free
to follow his vision wherever it takes him.
- John F. Kennedy

Gossip is the art of saying nothing
in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.
- Walter Winchell

In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.
- Rabindranath Tagore

If being an egomaniac means I believe
in what I do and in my art or my music,
then in that respect you can call me that.
I believe in what I do, and I'll say it.
- John Lennon

Art is never finished, only abandoned.
- Leonardo da Vinci

Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie"
until you can find a rock.
- Will Rogers

Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
- Frank Lloyd Wright

Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money
they don't have for something they don't need.
- Will Rogers

Where the spirit does not work with the hand,
there is no art.
- Leonardo da Vinci

In art, the hand can never execute anything
higher than the heart can imagine.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.
- Leonardo da Vinci

Leadership is the art of getting someone else
to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Television has a real problem. They have no page two.
- Art Buchwald

All that this world needs is a good cleansing of the heart
of all the inhibitions of the past.
And laughter and tears can do both.
Tears will take out all the agony that is hidden inside you
and laughter will take all that is preventing your ecstasy.
Once you have learned the art you will be immensely surprised.
- Osho

If what is seen and experienced is portrayed
in the language of logic,
we are engaged in science.
If it is communicated through forms
whose connections are not accessible
to the conscious mind but are
recognized intuitively as meaningful,
then we are engaged in art.
- Albert Einstein

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie.
I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave.
And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.
- H.L. Mencken

I do myself a greater injury in lying
than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
- Michel de Montaigne

The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal.
The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.
- Benjamin E. Mays

Even the truth, when believed, is a lie.
You must experience the truth, not believe it.
- Werner Erhard

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie,
deliberate, contrived and dishonest,
but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
- John F. Kennedy

Half a truth is often a great lie.
- Benjamin Franklin

Mind what people do, not only what they say,
for deeds will betray a lie.
- Terry Goodkind

If evil be spoken of you
and it be true, correct yourself,
if it be a lie, laugh at it.
- Epictetus

The roots of all goodness lie
in the soil of appreciation for goodness.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

Greatness is not in where we stand,
but in what direction we are moving.
We must sail sometimes with the wind
and sometimes against it -
but sail we must,
and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask "Why me?"
Then a voice answers "Nothing personal,
your name just happened to come up. -
- Charlie Brown, in Charles M. Schulz' cartoon Peanuts

The truest expression of a people
is in its dances and its music.
Bodies never lie.
- Agnes De Mille

Whenever I feel the need to exercise,
I lie down until it goes away.
- Robert Maynard Hutchins

Don't lie down. Get up.
- Bono

A lie cannot live.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Above all, don't lie to yourself.
The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie
comes to a point that he cannot
distinguish the truth within him, or around him,
and so loses all respect for himself and for others.
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky

A lie travels round the world while
truth is putting her boots on.
- French Proverb
(also attributed to Mark Twain, Winston Churchill, and others)

Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.
- H. L. Mencken

We tell lies when we are afraid...
afraid of what we don't know,
afraid of what others will think,
afraid of what will be found out about us.
But every time we tell a lie,
the thing that we fear grows stronger.
- Williams Tad

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