Pressing Art

My trade and my art is living. - Michel De Montaigne

Art is the most beautiful of lies. - Claude Debussy

I view art as an inspirational tool. - Thomas Kincade

Art is the signature of civilizations. - Beverly Sills

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

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

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

The art of government is the organization of idolatry. - George Bernard Shaw

Life doesn't imitate art; it imitates bad television. - Woody Allen

Get in touch with your passion and put it to work at work. - Marilyn Suttle

The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure. - Dale Carnegie

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

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

In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport. - Julia Child

The Iranians and Persians are excellent at the art of negotiation. - Donald Trump

You touch some of the reasons for my going, not for my staying away. - Charles Dickens

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

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

All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography. - Frederico Fellini

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

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

The practice of art isn't to make a living. It's to make your soul grow. - Kurt Vonnegut

A half finished shawl left on the coffee table isn't a mess; it's an object of art. - Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

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

The elevator to success is out of order. You'll have to use the stairs... one step at a time. - Joe Girard

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

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

What's the earth with all its art, verse, music, worth -
Compared with love, found, gained, and kept? - Robert Browning

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

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

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

Despite all our toil and progress, the art of medicine still falls somewhere between trout casting and spook writing. - Ben Hecht

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

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living. - Frederic Amiel

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

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy. - Groucho Marx

The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind. - Paracelsus

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

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

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