Barn Art

All art is quite useless. - Oscar Wilde

Art is the most beautiful of lies. - Claude Debussy

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

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

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

Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence. - Joseph Krutch

I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting. - Jackson Pollock

To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature. - August Rodin

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery. - Mark Van Doren

Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough. - Groucho Marx

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture. - Elvis Costello

Timing has a lot to do with the outcome of a rain dance. - Unknown

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

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

The new job of art is to sit on the wall and get more expensive. - Robert Hughes

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

Life is too short to eat vanilla ice cream and dance with boring men. - Unknown

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

The great art of life is sensation; to feel that we exist, even in pain. - Lord Byron

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

Italy is the home of art and swindling; home of religion and moral rottenness. - Mark Twain

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

Propaganda is the art of persuading others of what you don't believe yourself. - Abba Eban

I love contemporary art, although I wouldn't want a pickled shark in my house. - Bruno Tonioli

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

If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice; if he leaves it empty, he gets actors. - Bill Vaughan

Copy nature and you infringe on the work of our Lord. Interpret nature and you are an artist. - Jacques Lipchitz

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 ballet toe shoe is one of the few instruments of torture to survive intact into our time. - Unknown

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

I'd stay away from Ecstasy: this is a drug so strong it makes white people think they can dance. - Lenny Henry

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

A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist. - R. Buckminster Fuller

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

Outcomes rarely turn on grand gestures or the art of the deal, but on whether you've sent someone a thank-you note. - Bernie Brillstein

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

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

The physician should look upon the patient as a besieged city and try to rescue him with every means that art and science place at his command. - Alexander of Tralles

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