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Photographing a cake can be art. - Irving Penn

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

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

Art is the signature of civilizations. - Beverly Sills

The human body is the best work of art. - Jess C. Scott

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

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

I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting. - Jackson Pollock

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

Good work rarely sells. I believe this of any art. - Arthur W Pinero

Politics is the art of controlling your environment. - Hunter S. Thompson

The art of being a slave is to rule one's master. - Diogenes

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

Painting is stronger than me, it makes me do its bidding. - Pablo Picasso

In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport. - Julia Child

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls. - Pablo Picasso

Oratory is the art of making a loud noise seem like a deep thought. - American Proverb

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

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

It is through art, and through art only, that we can realize our perfection. - Oscar Wilde

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

I love contemporary art, although I wouldn't want a pickled shark in my house. - Bruno Tonioli

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

The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity. - Andre Gide

Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experience treacherous, judgment difficult. - Hypocrites

A half finished shawl left on the coffee table isn't a mess; it's an object of art. - Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it. - Laurence J Peter

Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted in spite of your changing moods. - C S Lewis

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

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. - John Kenneth Galbraith

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

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

The birch-bark canoe of the savage seems to me one of the most beautiful and perfect things of the kind constructed by human art. - William C. Bryant

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

A good plate of sushi after an opening helps to soothe that post-opening blues - especially since you feel like raw meat yourself. - Jim Drain

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

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

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