Top 32 The Art Of Deception Quotes
#1. The art of war is the art of deception.
Sun Tzu
#4. Art is the most beautiful deception of all. And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory.
Claude Debussy
#5. Flirtation and coquetry are so nearly allied as to be identical; both are the art of successful and pleasing deception.
Louise Colet
#6. Disguise, I see thou art a wickedness,/ Wherein the ... enemy does much.
William Shakespeare
#7. Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.
William Hazlitt
#8. Coquetry is the art of successful deception.
Louise Colet
#9. Part of the art of bowling spin is to make the batsman think something special is happening when it isn't.
Shane Warne
#10. Life is deceitful because all warfare is based on deception.
William C. Brown
#12. If deceiving the eye were the only business of the art ... the minute painter would be more apt to succeed. But it is not the eye, it is the mind which the painter of genius desires to address.
Joshua Reynolds
#13. But...If that's true, then you're not...we thought you...Akira?
Katsuhiro Otomo
#14. When you get right down to it, lots of things that look fancy are easy to do, and lots of things that seem easy are hard, even if you're very creative and a good artist.
Nancy Freund
#16. I chose to tell the story visually, so that anyone of any age, from any country, could understand it.
Bill Watterson
#17. The secret is just to not give up hope. It's very hard not to, because if you're really doing something worthwhile I think you will be pushed to the brink of hopelessness before you come through the other side. And you just have to hang in through that." ~ George Lucas
Vanessa Moore
#18. The film is the first art form capable of demonstrating how matter plays tricks on man.
Walter Benjamin
#19. It is the breaking of life that produces the blessing of life,
T.D. Jakes
#20. Self-deception is nature; hypocrisy is art.
Mason Cooley
#21. Either the men of Galilee were men of superlative wisdom, and extensive knowledge and experience, and of deeper skill in the arts of deception than any and all others, before them or after them, or they have truly stated astonishing things which they saw and heard.
Simon Greenleaf
#22. Deception is a developed art of civilization and the most potent weapon in the game of power
Robert Greene
#23. Playing with appearances and mastering the arts of deception are among the aesthetic pleasures of life. They are also key components in the acquisition of power.
Robert Greene
#24. Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.
Khaled Hosseini
#25. It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of self-deception.
Robert Motherwell
#26. All martial arts is simply an honest expression of one's body - with a lot of deception in between.
Bruce Lee
#28. The state is not only repressive; it is also educative - shaping common sense through ideological state apparatuses (such as the academy) that normalize the rule of settler colonialism.
Audra Simpson
#29. Art has no place in modern life. It will continue to exist as long as there is a mania for the romantic and so long as there are people who love beautiful lies and deception ... Every modern cultured man must wage war against art, as against opium ... Photograph and be photographed.
Alexander Rodchenko
#31. Art is a deception that creates real emotions - a lie that creates a truth. And when you give yourself over to that deception, it becomes magic.
Marco Tempest
#32. The art of a magician is not found in the simple deception, but in what surrounds it, the construction of a reality which supports the illusion.
Jim Steinmeyer
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