Creative Vandalism

All of nature is God's art. - Dante

The painting has a life of its own. - Jackson Pollock

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

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

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

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

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

Love the art in yourself, not yourself in the art. - Constantin Stanislavski

Magic: An art of converting superstition into coin - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Whittle By Whittle: How to carve a statue out of wood - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

No one should have to dance backwards all their lives. - Jill Ruckelshaus

Dancing can reveal all the mystery that music conceals. - Charles Baudelaire

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

The immature artist imitates. The mature artist steals. - Lionel Trilling

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

The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection. - Mechelangelo di Lodovico

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

Riding: The art of keeping a horse between yourself and the ground - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

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

A painting is never finished — it simply stops in interesting places. - Paul Gardner

If thou art a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf. - Thomas Fuller

If thou art a master, sometimes be blind; if a servant, sometimes be deaf. - Thomas Fuller

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance. - George Bernard Shaw

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

Grantartica: The cold, isolated place where art companies dwell without funding - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

We dance in a circle and suppose, while the secret sits in the middle and knows. - Robert Frost

The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them. - Bernard M Baruch

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. - Scott Adams

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

The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions which have been hidden by the answers. - James Baldwin

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

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

We ought to dance with rapture that we might be alive... and part of the living, incarnate cosmos. - D.H. Lawrence

Leadership: The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. - Dwight D Eisenhower

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

Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself. - Bertrand Russell

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

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

The biggest thing separating people from their artistic ambitions is not a lack of talent. It's the lack of a deadline. - Chris Baty

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