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My trade and my art is living. - Michel De Montaigne

Photographing a cake can be art. - Irving Penn

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

Art is the most beautiful of lies. - Claude Debussy

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

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

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

The true art of memory is the art of attention. - Samuel Johnson

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

Last week, I went to Philadelphia, but it was closed. - WC Fields

The art of being a slave is to rule one's master. - Diogenes

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

Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art. - Oscar Wilde

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

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls. - Pablo Picasso

Oratory is the art of making a loud noise seem like a deep thought. - American Proverb

I'm a guy who can't function well in life, but I can in art. - Woody Allen

There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome. - Andre Gide

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

The art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on. - Henry H Ellis

The art of conversation is the art of hearing as well as of being heard. - William Hazlitt

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

The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity. - Andre Gide

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

Leadership is the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done. - Vance Packard

'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.' - W H Auden

Art is a human activity having for its purpose the transmission to others of the highest and best feelings. - Leo Tolstoy

To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way. - E M Forster

If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that. - John Lennon

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

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

The birch-bark canoe of the savage seems to me one of the most beautiful and perfect things of the kind constructed by human art. - William C. Bryant

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

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