Leonardo da Vinci's Unfinished Portrait

The modern work of art is a symbol. - Herbert Read

Art is the signature of civilizations. - Beverly Sills

Education is the art of making man ethical. - Georg Hegel

All great art comes from a sense of outrage. - Glenn Close

Vision is the art of seeing things invisible. - Jonathan Swift

There is Jackson, standing like a stone wall. - Bernard Bee

What is this, an audience or an oil painting? - Milton Berle

Logic is neither science nor an art, but a dodge. - Benjamin Jowett

It's not failure. It's unfinished success. - Unknown

The art of a people is a true mirror to their minds. - Jawaharlal Nehru

Art is making something out of nothing and selling it. - Frank Zappa

The art of government is the organization of idolatry. - George Bernard Shaw

Before they invented drawing boards, what did they go back to? - George Carlin

The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure. - Dale Carnegie

The art of mothering is to teach the art of living to children. - Elaine Heffner

The Iranians and Persians are excellent at the art of negotiation. - Donald Trump

It is a symbol of Irish art. The cracked looking-glass of a servant. - James Joyce

Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it. - Robert Motherwell

The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes. - Tony Blair

Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. - John Kenneth Galbraith

Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises. - Samuel Butler

Oh, if it be to choose and call thee mine, love, thou art every day my Valentine! - Thomas Hood

Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on. - Robert Frost

Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. - Gunter Grass

Prophecy: The art and practice of selling one's credibility for future delivery. - Ambrose Bierce

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. - Albert Einstein

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art. - Eleanor Roosevelt

The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient, whilst Mother Nature takes care of the cure. - Voltaire

It's not your painting anymore. It stopped being your painting the moment that you finished it. - Jeff Melvoin

A blind man can make art if what is in his mind can be passed to another mind in some tangible form. - Sol LeWitt

Never pay attention to what critics say. Remember, a statue has never been set up in honor of a critic. - Jean Sibelius

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece. - Ludwig Erhard

Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings. - Vicki Baum

Art is made to disturb. Science reassures. There is only one valuable thin in art: the thing you cannot explain. - Georges Braque

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

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other. - Voltaire

Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. - Donald Trump

Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor. - Andre Gide

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival. - C S Lewis

Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of words. - Franz Liszt