Tartan Treasures

Dust thou art, to dust returnest. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

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

Any idealism is a proper subject for art. - Lafcadio Hearn

All dancing girls are nineteen years old. - Japanese Proverb

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

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

Truth is simple, requiring neither study nor art. - Ammian

Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace. - Oscar Wilde

Art is making something out of nothing and selling it. - Frank Zappa

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

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art. - Susan Sontag

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday. - Don Marquis

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

Art is the demonstration that the ordinary is extraordinary. - Amedee Ozenfant

Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire. - Steven Wright

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

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

The fine art of preparing sushi is something that you watch and learn. - Nobu Matsuhisa

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

In the haunted house of life, art is the only stair that doesn't creak. - Tom Robbins

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

The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you. - Oscar Wilde

The trouble with dancing naked is that not everything stops when the music does. - Unknown

North of the 49th parallel we value equality; south of it, they treasure freedom. - Michael Adams

Football isn't a contact sport; it's a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport. - Vince Lombardi

God gives men wisdom as he gives them gold; his treasure house is not the mint, but the mine. - Arabic Proverb

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

In my house on the ceilings I have paintings of the rooms above, so I never have to go upstairs. - Steven Wright

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad. - Salvador Dali

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

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

I feel strongly that the visual arts are of vast importance. Of course I could be prejudiced. I am a visual art. - Kermit The Frog

The biggest thing separating people from their artistic ambitions is not a lack of talent. It's the lack of a deadline. - Chris Baty

If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him. - John F Kennedy

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other. - Voltaire

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

The physician should look upon the patient as a besieged city and try to rescue him with every means that art and science place at his command. - Alexander of Tralles