Pressing Art

Art is a revolt against fate. - Andre Malraux

All of nature is God's art. - Dante

Photographing a cake can be art. - Irving Penn

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

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

What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art. - Augustus Saint-Gaudens

Maintenance is as much art as it is science. - Unknown

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

She caught a touch of laryngosis from the smoke. - Archie Bunker

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

God is not interested in your art but, your heart. - Ifeanyi E. Onuoha

The art of a people is a true mirror to their minds. - Jawaharlal Nehru

Art is making something out of nothing and selling it. - Frank Zappa

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

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

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

Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between. - David Letterman

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

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

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

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

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can inspire. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you. - Oscar Wilde

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

I don't consider myself a heavy drinker, I often go hours without touching a drop. - Noel Coward

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

Of all sound of all bells... most solemn and touching is the peal which rings out the Old Year. - Charles Lamb

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad. - Salvador Dali

Build. Destroy. Rebuild. I've mastered the art of bouncing back. Now to master the art of not having to. - Unknown

Puttering is really a time to be alone, to dream and to get in touch with yourself. To putter is to discover. - Alexandra Stoddard

'Tis not always in a physician's power to cure the sick; at times the disease is stronger than trained art. - Ovid

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

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

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

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other. - Voltaire

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

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

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