Leonardo da Vinci's Unfinished Portrait

Art is the most beautiful of lies. - Claude Debussy

Art is the signature of civilizations. - Beverly Sills

Art is anything you can get away with. - Marshall McLuhan

If that's art, I'm a Hottentot! - Harry S Truman

Any idealism is a proper subject for art. - Lafcadio Hearn

We have art to save ourselves from the truth. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Life is the art of drawing without an eraser. - John Gardner

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

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

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Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art. - F Scott Fitzgerald

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

Botany: The art of insulting flowers in Greek and Latin. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

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

In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport. - Julia Child

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting. - Sun Tzu

We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master. - Ernest Hemingway

To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy. - Will Durant

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

Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart go together. - John Ruskin

In the haunted house of life, art is the only stair that doesn't creak. - Tom Robbins

Diplomacy is the art of saying, "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock. - Will Rogers

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

Anyone who thinks the art of conversation is dead ought to tell a child to go to bed. - Robert Gallagher

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

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better. - Andre Gide

Liability: 1. The art of convincing others of your innocence; 2. A talent for telling untruths. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

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

It's amazing what you can do with an E in A-Level art, a twisted imagination and a chainsaw. - Damien Hirst

Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted in spite of your changing moods. - C S Lewis

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. - John Kenneth Galbraith

I went to the museum where they had all the heads and arms from the statues that are in all the other museums. - Steven Wright

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

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

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living. - Frederic Amiel

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

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

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

If it's flipping hamburgers at McDonald's, be the best hamburger flipper in the world. Whatever it is you do you have to master your craft. - Snoop Dogg