QuotaBillsArt is the most beautiful of lies. - Claude Debussy
Art is the signature of civilizations. - Beverly Sills
If that's art, I'm a Hottentot! - Harry S Truman
Vision is the art of seeing things invisible. - Jonathan Swift
Life is the art of drawing without an eraser. - John Gardner
What is this, an audience or an oil painting? - Milton Berle
Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend. - John Singer Sargent
Art is either a plagiarist or a revolutionist. - Paul Gauguin
An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one. - Charles Horton Cooley
Good work rarely sells. I believe this of any art. - Arthur W Pinero
Politics is the art of controlling your environment. - Hunter S. Thompson
Art is not what you see, but what you make others see. - Degas
Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing. - Robert Benchley
Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art. - F Scott Fitzgerald
The immature artist imitates. The mature artist steals. - Lionel Trilling
Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory. - Oscar Wilde
Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity. - Yoko Ono
Painting is stronger than me, it makes me do its bidding. - Pablo Picasso
Art in nature is rhythmic and has a horror of constraint. - Robert Delaunay
Mathematical genius and artistic genius touch one another. - Gosta Mittag-Leffler
One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art. - Oscar Wilde
They couldn't find the artist, so they hung the picture. - Unknown
Advertising is the greatest art form of the twentieth century. - Marshall McLuhan
The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection. - Mechelangelo di Lodovico
Stand-up comedy is an art form and it dies unless you expand it. - Sam Kinison
To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy. - Will Durant
In an artist's life, death is perhaps not the most difficult thing. - Vincent van Gogh
The art challenges the technology, and the technology inspires the art. - John Lasseter
Pickup artist: An artist whose specialty is painting pictures of trucks - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
The art of conversation is the art of hearing as well as of being heard. - William Hazlitt
There are moments when Art almost attains to the dignity of manual labor. - Oscar Wilde
Out of suffering comes creativity. You cannot spell painting without pain. - John Lithgow
Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing. - Ralph Richardson
Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. - John Kenneth Galbraith
It is through art, and through art only, that we can realize our perfection. - Oscar Wilde
Life beats down and crushes the soul, but art reminds you that you have one. - Stella Adler
Grantartica: The cold, isolated place where art companies dwell without funding - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on. - Robert Frost
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. - Scott Adams
Anyone who thinks the art of conversation is dead ought to tell a child to go to bed. - Robert Gallagher
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. - Albert Einstein
Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experience treacherous, judgment difficult. - Hypocrites
Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better. - Andre Gide
We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality. - Irish Murdoch
I have discovered the art of fooling diplomats. I speak the truth, and they never believe me. - Camillo Di Cavour
No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist. - Oscar Wilde
In my house on the ceilings I have paintings of the rooms above, so I never have to go upstairs. - Steven Wright
Art is the right hand of nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men. - Friedrich Schiller
Leadership is the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done. - Vance Packard
In the cycle of a great civilization, the artist begins as priest, and ends as a clown or buffoon. - Malcolm Muggeridge
It's not your painting anymore. It stopped being your painting the moment that you finished it. - Jeff Melvoin
Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. - Albert Einstein
I feel strongly that the visual arts are of vast importance. Of course I could be prejudiced. I am a visual art. - Kermit The Frog
If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that. - John Lennon
The minute there's a map, there is no art. Paint by numbers is not art. Paint by numbers is a mechanical activity. - Seth Godin
The biggest thing separating people from their artistic ambitions is not a lack of talent. It's the lack of a deadline. - Chris Baty
If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him. - John F Kennedy
We all know that art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. - Pablo Picasso
Logic: the art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. - Ambrose Bierce
An intellectual is a man who says a simple thing in a difficult way; an artist is a man who says a difficult thing in a simple way. - Charles Bukowski
Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen. - Pablo Picasso
The only happy artist is a dead artist, because only then you can't change. After I die, I'll probably come back as a paintbrush. - Sylvester Stallone
Love easily confuses us because it is always in flux between illusion and substance, between memory and wish, between contentment and need. - Tom Robbins
Humility is becoming a lost art, but it's not difficult to practice. It means that you realize that others have been involved in your success. - Harvey Mackay