Tartan Treasures

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Art is the most beautiful of lies. - Claude Debussy

The painting has a life of its own. - Jackson Pollock

Art is anything you can get away with. - Marshall McLuhan

Rich the treasure; Sweet the pleasure. - John Dryden

If that's art, I'm a Hottentot! - Harry S Truman

I'm not making art, I'm making sushi. - Masaharu Morimoto

The true art of memory is the art of attention. - Samuel Johnson

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

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

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. - Pablo Picasso

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

We need a leader that wrote "The Art of the Deal". - Donald Trump

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

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

There are short-cuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them. - Vicki Baum

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

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. - Thomas Merton

A painting is never finished — it simply stops in interesting places. - Paul Gardner

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

The wise man does not lay up treasure. The more he gives the more he has. - Chinese Proverb

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

I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough? - Vincent van Gogh

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

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

The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them. - Bernard M Baruch

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

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. - Scott Adams

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

Prophecy: The art and practice of selling one's credibility for future delivery. - Ambrose Bierce

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

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

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

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

Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message. - Malcolm Muggeridge

The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind. - Paracelsus

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

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

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