Center Square Peg

Photographing a cake can be art. - Irving Penn

An art thief is a man who takes pictures. - George Carlin

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

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

Truth is simple, requiring neither study nor art. - Ammian

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

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

Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace. - Oscar Wilde

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

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

Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity. - Yoko Ono

Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art. - Claude Debussy

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

The art of mothering is to teach the art of living to children. - Elaine Heffner

Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability. - William Osler

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

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

We have art so that we do not die of reality. Reality is too much with us. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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

Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. - John Kenneth Galbraith

Life beats down and crushes the soul, but art reminds you that you have one. - Stella Adler

I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough? - Vincent van Gogh

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

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

Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid. - Walter Winchell

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

I have discovered the art of fooling diplomats. I speak the truth, and they never believe me. - Camillo Di Cavour

The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient, whilst Mother Nature takes care of the cure. - Voltaire

Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it. - Dwight D Eisenhower

A blind man can make art if what is in his mind can be passed to another mind in some tangible form. - Sol LeWitt

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece. - Ludwig Erhard

It is our art that has an opportunity to leave a footprint in the sand. They don't wrap fish in our work. - Hugh N Jacobsen

Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings. - Vicki Baum

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

The minute there's a map, there is no art. Paint by numbers is not art. Paint by numbers is a mechanical activity. - Seth Godin

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

Toy Soldiers was my introduction to film. I certainly didn't think I was doing art by any stretch of the imagination. - Tim Robbins

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival. - C S Lewis

I adore art. When I am alone with my notes, my heart pounds and the tears stream from my eyes, and my emotion and my joys are too much to bear. - Guiseppe Verdi