Tartan Treasures

Life is brief, art is long. - Hippocrates

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

Dancing with her was like moving a piano. - Ring Lardner

Our humor turns our anger into a fine art. - Mary Kay Blakely

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

Art is either a plagiarist or a revolutionist. - Paul Gauguin

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

The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity. - Douglas Horton

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

The art of love is largely the art of persistence. - Albert Ellis

The only time I feel alive is when I'm painting. - Andy Warhol

Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are. - Mary Jean Irion

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

Talking about music is like dancing about architecture. - Steve Martin

Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory. - Oscar Wilde

Dancing is like bank robbery - it takes split second timing. - Twyla Tharp

My theory is that all of Scottish cuisine is based on a dare. - Mike Myers

The history of Scotland is one of theology tempered by homicide. - Ivor Brown

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

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

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

Perspective is to painting what the bridle is to the horse, the rudder to a ship. - Leonardo da Vinci

Heroes take journeys, confront dragons, and discover the treasure of their true selves. - Carol Pearson

The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most. - Dale Carnegie

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

Leadership is the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done. - Vance Packard

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

Leadership: The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. - Dwight D Eisenhower

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

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

I don't want to be the oldest performer in captivity. I don't want to look like a little old man dancing out there. - Fred Astaire

Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other. - Oscar Ameringer

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

I adore art. When I am alone with my notes, my heart pounds and the tears stream from my eyes, and my emotion and my joys are too much to bear. - Guiseppe Verdi

Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness. - George Sand