Pressing Art

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

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

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

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

Good work rarely sells. I believe this of any art. - Arthur W Pinero

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

The 'Earth' without art is just 'eh'. - Unknown

A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art. - Paul Cezanne

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

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

Never touch your idols: the gilding will stick to your fingers. - Gustave Flaubert

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

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

The art of conversation is the art of hearing as well as of being heard. - William Hazlitt

Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart go together. - John Ruskin

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

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

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

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

Italy is the home of art and swindling; home of religion and moral rottenness. - Mark Twain

Diplomacy is the art of saying, "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock. - Will Rogers

I love contemporary art, although I wouldn't want a pickled shark in my house. - Bruno Tonioli

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

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

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

A blind man can make art if what is in his mind can be passed to another mind in some tangible form. - Sol LeWitt

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

Faith is belief in what you cannot see or prove or touch. Faith is walking face-first and full-speed into the dark. - Elizabeth Gilbert

Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same. - Helen Keller

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

Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting, or living itself, which is the greatest art of all. - Ray Bradbury

Logic: the art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. - Ambrose Bierce

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