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All art is quite useless. - Oscar Wilde

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

What is this, an audience or an oil painting? - Milton Berle

Logic is neither science nor an art, but a dodge. - Benjamin Jowett

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

The art of a people is a true mirror to their minds. - Jawaharlal Nehru

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

Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist. - Franz Liszt

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing. - Marcus Aurelius

Management is a practice where art, science, and craft meet. - Henry Mintzberg

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting. - Sun Tzu

The new job of art is to sit on the wall and get more expensive. - Robert Hughes

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

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

Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it. - Robert Motherwell

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

The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much. - William Hazlitt

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. - Emile Zola

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

Humour is a rubber sword - it allows you to make a point without drawing blood. - Mary Hirsch

Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. - Gunter Grass

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

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist. - Oscar Wilde

No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time. It is just that the others are behind the time. - Martha Graham

Psychiatry is the art of teaching people how to stand on their own two feet while reclining on couches. - Sigmund Freud

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece. - Ludwig Erhard

'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.' - W H Auden

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

Build. Destroy. Rebuild. I've mastered the art of bouncing back. Now to master the art of not having to. - Unknown

Just as the bird sings or the butterfly soars, because it is his natural characteristic, so the artist works. - Alma Gluck

Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and acitivty of man's nature. - Robert South

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 greatest achievement of humanity is not its works of art, science, or technology, but the recognition of its own dysfunction. - Eckhart Tolle

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

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

Art owes its origin to nature. This beautiful creation supplied the first model, while the original teacher was that divine intelligence. - Giorgio Vasari

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies. - Napoleon Bonaparte

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

My wife was a make-up artist, and she's a total product junkie. Our bathroom is packed full of lotions and potions so I end up trying them out. - Robert Carlyle