Pressing Art

Life is brief, art is long. - Hippocrates

I touch the future. I teach. - Christa McAuliffe

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

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

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

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

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

Making sushi is an art, and experience is everything. - Nobu Matsuhisa

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

Art is not what you see, but what you make others see. - Degas

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

Elevator: A metal container used to move sardines up and down. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Stand-up comedy is an art form and it dies unless you expand it. - Sam Kinison

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

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

Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it. - Robert Motherwell

Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature? - Charles Baudelaire

Break the ice in a crowded elevator by asking how much everyone weighs. - Bill Murray

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

I have only one superstition. I make sure I touch all bases when I hit a home run. - Babe Ruth

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order. - Alfred N Whitehead

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

Shopping: The fine art of acquiring things you don't need with money you don't have. - Unknown

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

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

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. - Aristotle

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. - Albert Einstein

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

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

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

Figure out what you hope for. Live inside that hope, running down its hallways, touching the walls on both sides. - Barbara Kingsolver

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

Learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn. - Peter F Drucker

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

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

People ask about art and commercialism. I think that if someone tries to sell their work at a high price, that is the wrong way of doing it. - Yayoi Kusama