All Bottled Up

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

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

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

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

Life is the art of drawing without an eraser. - John Gardner

Comedy is like catching lightning in a bottle. - Goldie Hawn

The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook. - William James

If you hate where you are, move - you are not a tree. - Unknown

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth. - Ludwig Borne

One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art. - Oscar Wilde

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

Native ability without education is like a tree without fruit. - Aristippus

Illusion is the dust the devil throws in the eyes of the foolish. - Minna Antrim

There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome. - Andre Gide

Our separation from each other is an optical illusion of consciousness. - Albert Einstein

The great art of life is sensation; to feel that we exist, even in pain. - Lord Byron

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

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

Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises. - Samuel Butler

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

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

Dancing is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made. - Ted Shawn

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

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. - George Bernard Shaw

Free will is an illusion. People always choose the perceived path of greatest pleasure. - Scott Adams

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature but beautiful old people are works of art. - Unknown

Transplanting the ballet to the United States is like trying to raise a palm tree in Dakota. - Lincoln Kirsten

The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient, whilst Mother Nature takes care of the cure. - Voltaire

The difference between a gun and a tree is a difference of tempo. The tree explodes every spring. - Ezra Pound

My wife is on a diet. Coconuts and bananas. She hasn't lost any weight, but she can sure climb a tree. - Henny Youngman

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

The minute there's a map, there is no art. Paint by numbers is not art. Paint by numbers is a mechanical activity. - Seth Godin

Outcomes rarely turn on grand gestures or the art of the deal, but on whether you've sent someone a thank-you note. - Bernie Brillstein

It's in the democratic citizen's nature to be like a leaf that doesn't believe in the tree it's part of. - David Foster Wallace

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

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy. - Groucho Marx

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

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

Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid. - Albert Einstein

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