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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.

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.

Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.

It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of self-deception.

Art is the most beautiful of all lies.

The point of painting is not really deception or imitation.

Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.

Pleasure has ever more been represented by poets and by painters as clothed in perpetual smiles and adorned with the richest jewels; and in real life, we have known many who, allured by her deceptions, blandishments, and hollow but showy temptations, have followed as she pointed until ruin has befallen them.

Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.

Illusion is the first of all pleasures.