Tartan Treasures

Life is brief, art is long. - Hippocrates

Art is a revolt against fate. - Andre Malraux

History develops, art stands still. - E.M. Forster

The modern work of art is a symbol. - Herbert Read

I view art as an inspirational tool. - Thomas Kincade

Art is a house that tries to be haunted. - Emily Dickinson

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

What is this, an audience or an oil painting? - Milton Berle

A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing. - Clive James

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

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

Treasure your relationships, not your possessions. - Anthony J. D'Angelo

Mathematical genius and artistic genius touch one another. - Gosta Mittag-Leffler

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

They bequeathed the gleaming gold, treasure of men, to earth. - Beowulf

Advertising is the greatest art form of the twentieth century. - Marshall McLuhan

Art doesn't reproduce the visible but rather makes it visible. - Paul Klee

If thou art a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf. - Thomas Fuller

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

If I could tell you what it meant, there would be no point in dancing it. - Isadora Duncan

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

We have art so that we do not die of reality. Reality is too much with us. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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

You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul. - George Bernard Shaw

There is more treasure in books than all the pirate's loot on treasure island. - Walt Disney

Propaganda is the art of persuading others of what you don't believe yourself. - Abba Eban

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease. - Voltaire

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

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

Writing is very much a playground - an artistic playground. It's the most fun thing I do. - Shania Twain

I have a difficult time doing an Irish accent; even now, it kind of fades slowly into Scottish. - Robin Williams

Boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music, no choreography, and the dancers hit each other. - Jack Handey

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

Confidence, like art, never comes from having all the answers; it comes from being open to all the questions. - Earl Gray Stevens

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

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

Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor. - Andre Gide

The great outdoors is a theme with me; a walking holiday in Scotland is perfect - Culloden and the forests of Aviemore are both favourites. - Erin O'Connor

Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of words. - Franz Liszt

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