Elephant Hand

Life is brief, art is long. - Hippocrates

Art is a revolt against fate. - Andre Malraux

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

Tea is a religion of the art of life. - Okakura Kakuzo

One does not marry art. One ravishes it. - Edgar Degas

Where a man feels pain he lays his hand. - Dutch Proverb

An art thief is a man who takes pictures. - George Carlin

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

Maintenance is as much art as it is science. - Unknown

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

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

It is better to have old second-hand diamonds than none at all. - Mark Twain

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

A really well made buttonhole is the only link between art and nature. - Oscar Wilde

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known. - Oscar Wilde

Anyone who says you can't see a thought simply doesn't know art. - Wynetka Ann Reynolds

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

Life beats down and crushes the soul, but art reminds you that you have one. - Stella Adler

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

I have a memory like an elephant. I remember every elephant I've ever met. - Herb Caen

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

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better. - Andre Gide

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

Self-pity is a sinkhole from which no rescuing hand can drag you because you have chosen to sink. - Elisabeth Elliot

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

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

Happiness is your dentist telling you it won't hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill. - Johnny Carson

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

I wish I could stand on a busy street corner, hat in hand and beg people to throw me all of their wasted hours. - Bernard Berenson

Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will. - Jawaharlal Nehru

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living. - Frederic Amiel

Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting, or living itself, which is the greatest art of all. - Ray Bradbury

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

Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor. - Andre Gide

I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand. - Yasser Arafat

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

Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home. - Edith Sitwell