Leonardo da Vinci's Unfinished Portrait

All art is quite useless. - Oscar Wilde

Dust thou art, to dust returnest. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Art is the most beautiful of lies. - Claude Debussy

History develops, art stands still. - E.M. Forster

Tea is a religion of the art of life. - Okakura Kakuzo

Our humor turns our anger into a fine art. - Mary Kay Blakely

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

The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity. - Douglas Horton

Now I know what a ghost is. Unfinished business. - Salman Rushdie

A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art. - Paul Cezanne

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art. - Susan Sontag

Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory. - Oscar Wilde

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. - Oscar Wilde

Art is the demonstration that the ordinary is extraordinary. - Amedee Ozenfant

We need a leader that wrote "The Art of the Deal". - Donald Trump

Tact is the art of convincing people that they know more than you do. - Raymond Mortimer

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. - Thomas Merton

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known. - Oscar Wilde

If thou art a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf. - Thomas Fuller

Anyone who says you can't see a thought simply doesn't know art. - Wynetka Ann Reynolds

The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much. - 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

It is through art, and through art only, that we can realize our perfection. - Oscar Wilde

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

To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine. - Henry Ward Beecher

Humour is a rubber sword - it allows you to make a point without drawing blood. - Mary Hirsch

Human life is but a series of footnotes to a vast obscure unfinished masterpiece. - Vladimir Nabokov

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature but beautiful old people are works of art. - Unknown

A half finished shawl left on the coffee table isn't a mess; it's an object of art. - Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying. - Oscar Wilde

The art of art, the glory of expression, and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity. - Walt Whitman

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

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

Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself. - Bertrand Russell

Confidence, like art, never comes from having all the answers; it comes from being open to all the questions. - Earl Gray Stevens

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

'Tis not always in a physician's power to cure the sick; at times the disease is stronger than trained art. - Ovid

Despite all our toil and progress, the art of medicine still falls somewhere between trout casting and spook writing. - Ben Hecht

Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other. - Oscar Ameringer