Quotes About Deception

The art of acting is not to act. Once you show them more, what you show them, in fact is bad acting.

Propaganda is the art of persuading others of what you don't believe yourself.

Besides prostitution, magic is one of the oldest art forms that exist.

When strong, avoid them. If of high morale, depress them. Seem humble to fill them with conceit. If at ease, exhaust them. If united, separate them. Attack their weaknesses. Emerge to their surprise.

O, sir, doubt not that Angling is an art; is it not an art to deceive a trout with an artificial fly?

Every race, every art has its hypocrisy. The world is fed with a little truth and many lies.

I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I tell them the truth and they never believe me.

The art of advertising - untruthfulness combined with repetition.

Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.

The art of flatterers is to take advantage of the foibles of the great, to foster their errors, and never to give advice which may annoy.

Art at its greatest is fantastically deceitful and complex.

Whenever things sound easy, it turns out there's one part you didn't hear.

Drawing is deception.

It is unhappily true that much insincere Literature and Art, executed solely with a view to effect, does succeed by deceiving the public.

The film is the first art form capable of demonstrating how matter plays tricks on man.

This is what is known as perspective, and it is a swindle.

Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.

They [spies] cannot be properly managed without benevolence and straightforwardness.

Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art.

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.

Sometimes my art is just an illusion - or is it?

From the point of view of art, there are no concrete or abstract forms, but only forms which are more or less convincing lies.

Flirtation and coquetry are so nearly allied as to be identical; both are the art of successful and pleasing deception.

A Locanian having plucked all the feathers off from a nightingale and seeing what a little body it had, "surely," quoth he, "thou art all voice and nothing else.