“The art of pleasing is the art of deception.”
Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715–1747) French writer, a moralist
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Art is the most beautiful deception of all!”
Unsourced variant: Art is the most beautiful of all lies.
The Life of the Creative Spirit
Context: 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. … Let us not disillusion anyone by bringing too much reality into the dream.
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