People come to music to seek oblivion: is that not also a form of deception?

Music is the silence between the notes.

People come to music to seek oblivion: is that not also a form of deception?

First of all, ladies and gentlemen, you must forget that you are singers.

Art is the most beautiful of all lies.

Some people wish above all to conform to the rules, I wish only to render what I can hear. There is no theory. You have only to listen. Pleasure is the law.

A beautiful sunset that was mistaken for a dawn.

Extreme complication is contrary to art.

Beauty must appeal to the senses, must provide us with immediate enjoyment, must impress us or insinuate itself into us without any effort on our part.

How much has to be explored and discarded before reaching the naked flesh of feeling.

There is nothing is more musical than a sunset. He who feels what he sees will find no more beautiful example of development in all that book which, alas, musicians read but too little - the book of Nature.

I love music passionately. And because I love it I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it.

Music is the expression of the movement of the waters, the play of curves described by changing breezes.

Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art.

I wish to sing of my interior visions with the naive candour of a child.

The century of airplanes has a right to its own music.

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.

In opera, there is always too much singing.

Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light.

The attraction of the virtuoso for the public is very like that of the circus for the crowd. There is always the hope that something dangerous will happen.

People don't very much like things that are beautiful.. they are so far from their nasty little minds.

We in this Congress have a choice. The American people have a right to exercise a choice on this issue, as to whether our men and women will continue to fight and die in a war based on deception and fantasy, or to start bringing the troops home.

I've spent a lot of time researching the subject and government deception. So to be involved in Star Trek is perfect for me. I enjoy meeting the fans and discussing my interests with them.

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

Men still have to be governed by deception.

Politicians are masters of the art of deception.

People come to music to seek oblivion: is that not also a form of deception?

All war is based on deception.

Knowledge of God's Word is a bulwark against deception, temptation, accusation, even persecution.

The essence of football was blocking, tackling, and execution based on timing, rhythm and deception.

I was involved, deeply involved, in a deception... I have deceived my friends - and I had millions of them.

All warfare is based on deception.

Certainly, it seems true enough that there's a good deal of irony in the world... I mean, if you live in a world full of politicians and advertising, there's obviously a lot of deception.

All possible means were used by the infatuated parents to conclude the bargain; and deception put an end to these usual artifices.

I pray to God that I shall not live one hour after I have thought of using deception.

It's a sad day when the leaders of the free world engage in such deception and trickery. I voted against this unnecessary war and will continue to argue that the best way to support our troops is to bring them home.

Nothing is so boring as having to keep up a deception.

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn't -it's human.

The art of pleasing is the art of deception.

For as long as I care to remember, religion, like the striptease, has always been a display of the power of suggestion. Like the Virgin Birth, it has all too often supported an immaculate deception.

The petty man is eager to make boasts, yet desires that others should believe in him. He enthusiastically engages in deception, yet wants others to have affection for him. He conducts himself like an animal, yet wants others to think well of him.

People always overdo the matter when they attempt deception.

In the last few years, the very idea of telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth is dredged up only as a final resort when the alternative options of deception, threat and bribery have all been exhausted.

Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.

Reality is easy. It's deception that's the hard work.

The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.

While all deception requires secrecy, all secrecy is not meant to deceive.

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.