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

Art is the signature of civilizations. - Beverly Sills

One does not marry art. One ravishes it. - Edgar Degas

Art is a house that tries to be haunted. - Emily Dickinson

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

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

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

Art is either a plagiarist or a revolutionist. - Paul Gauguin

I teach the art of turning anguish into delight. - Georges Bataille

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

The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook. - William James

Good work rarely sells. I believe this of any art. - Arthur W Pinero

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home. - Twyla Tharp

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

Value Investing: The art of buying low and selling lower - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday. - WC Fields

Art doesn't reproduce the visible but rather makes it visible. - Paul Klee

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

The fine art of preparing sushi is something that you watch and learn. - Nobu Matsuhisa

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

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

All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography. - Frederico Fellini

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

You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul. - George Bernard Shaw

The practice of art isn't to make a living. It's to make your soul grow. - Kurt Vonnegut

Jealousy is the art of counting someone else's blessings instead of your own. - Unknown

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

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

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

Shopping: The fine art of acquiring things you don't need with money you don't have. - Unknown

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

Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message. - Malcolm Muggeridge

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

Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting, or living itself, which is the greatest art of all. - Ray Bradbury

Logic: the art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. - Ambrose Bierce

For me, the drive is storytelling. To be a part of an art that tells a story and to be a catalyst, a color in that, is very exciting. - Alden Ehrenreich

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia. - Judith Viorst

Art owes its origin to nature. This beautiful creation supplied the first model, while the original teacher was that divine intelligence. - Giorgio Vasari