“Art is limitation…. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.”

— G. K. Chesterton, book Tremendous Trifles

Tremendous Trifles (1909)

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G. K. Chesterton229

English mystery novelist and Christian apologist 1874–1936

P. C. Cast book Betrayed

Source: Betrayed

“The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.”

Francis Bacon (1561–1626) English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, and author

“It's funny how the beauty of art has so much more to do with the frame than the artwork itself.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Choke

Source: Choke

“Art is the most beautiful deception of all!”

Claude Debussy (1862–1918) French composer

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.

“It is difficult to see the picture when you are inside the frame.”

Stephie Pahlavi Zan