Pressing Art

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

Politics is the art of the possible. - Otto von Bismarck

The human body is the best work of art. - Jess C. Scott

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

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

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin. - William Shakespeare

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

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

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

The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity. - Douglas Horton

Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life. - Oscar Wilde

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

Our fingerprints don't fade from the lives we touch. - Judy Blume

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. - Oscar Wilde

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

There is no elevator to success - you have to take the stairs. - Unknown

She had the Midas touch. Everything she touched turned into a muffler. - Lisa Smerling

Truth is as impossible to be soiled by any outward touch as the sunbeam. - John Milton

There are moments when Art almost attains to the dignity of manual labor. - Oscar Wilde

Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing. - Ralph Richardson

To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine. - Henry Ward Beecher

Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. - Diane Ackerman

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

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

It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art. - Oscar Wilde

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. - Albert Einstein

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better. - Andre Gide

Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it. - Laurence J Peter

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

Art is the right hand of nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men. - Friedrich Schiller

Fang and I are always fighting. When we get up in the morning, we don't kiss; we touch gloves. - Phyllis Diller

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

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

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

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

The greatest achievement of humanity is not its works of art, science, or technology, but the recognition of its own dysfunction. - Eckhart Tolle

Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. - Donald Trump

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

People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom? - Nhat Hanh