Pressing Art

The secret of life is in art. - Oscar Wilde

All of nature is God's art. - Dante

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

Education is the art of making man ethical. - Georg Hegel

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

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

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

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

I wouldn't let him touch me with a ten-foot pole. - Mae West

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

The art of communication is the language of leadership. - James Humes

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

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

I now touch nothing stronger than buttermilk: 90-proof buttermilk. - WC Fields

A really well made buttonhole is the only link between art and nature. - Oscar Wilde

Anyone who says you can't see a thought simply doesn't know art. - Wynetka Ann Reynolds

Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. - John Kenneth Galbraith

It is through art, and through art only, that we can realize our perfection. - Oscar Wilde

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

Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work. - Seth Godin

Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid. - Walter Winchell

Anyone who thinks the art of conversation is dead ought to tell a child to go to bed. - Robert Gallagher

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

Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretches her fingers to touch the heavens. - Lao Tzu

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

The art of art, the glory of expression, and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity. - Walt Whitman

It's amazing what you can do with an E in A-Level art, a twisted imagination and a chainsaw. - Damien Hirst

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

Psychiatry is the art of teaching people how to stand on their own two feet while reclining on couches. - Sigmund Freud

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

My cell phone is acting up - I keep pressing the home button but when I look around, I'm still at work. - Unknown

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

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

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

He either fears his fate too much,
Or his deserts are small,
Who dares not put it to the touch
To gain or lose it all - Marquis of Montrose

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

Humility is becoming a lost art, but it's not difficult to practice. It means that you realize that others have been involved in your success. - Harvey Mackay

Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home. - Edith Sitwell