Sidewalk Pickpocket

All art is quite useless. - Oscar Wilde

Every artist was first an amateur. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Art is the most beautiful of lies. - Claude Debussy

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

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

All great art comes from a sense of outrage. - Glenn Close

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

The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity. - Douglas Horton

I should not believe in a God who does not dance. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

God is not interested in your art but, your heart. - Ifeanyi E. Onuoha

To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature. - August Rodin

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

An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision. - James M Whistler

Timing has a lot to do with the outcome of a rain dance. - Unknown

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

I'm due at the ballet. They're doin' Swoon Lake. - Archie Bunker

Before they invented drawing boards, what did they go back to? - George Carlin

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul. - Joseph Addison

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

We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master. - Ernest Hemingway

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

To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy. - Will Durant

The art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on. - Henry H Ellis

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

All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography. - Frederico Fellini

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

I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself. - Mihkail Baryshnikov

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul and paints his own nature into his pictures. - Henry Ward Beecher

The most potent and sacred command which can be laid upon any artist is the command: wait. - Iris Murdoch

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

I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast. - Viktor Frankl

Because I'm an artist, I can't ever consider myself a nihilist, so I suppose I'm optimistic. - Marilyn Manson

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

Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself. - Bertrand Russell

What's the earth with all its art, verse, music, worth -
Compared with love, found, gained, and kept? - Robert Browning

To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way. - E M Forster

A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist. - R. Buckminster Fuller

It's tangible, it's solid, it's beautiful. It's artistic, from my standpoint, and I just love real estate. - Donald Trump

Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. - Donald Trump

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