Crocodile Floor

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

Art is anything you can get away with. - Marshall McLuhan

Any idealism is a proper subject for art. - Lafcadio Hearn

Our humor turns our anger into a fine art. - Mary Kay Blakely

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

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

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

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

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

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

Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life. - Oscar Wilde

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home. - Twyla Tharp

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery. - Mark Van Doren

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. - Pablo Picasso

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art. - Susan Sontag

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. - Oscar Wilde

Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion. - Miguel de Unamuno

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

The Iranians and Persians are excellent at the art of negotiation. - Donald Trump

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

You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on. - Dean Martin

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

The bodies in my floor all trusted someone. Now I walk on them to tea. - Victoria Schwab

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

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

Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. - John Kenneth Galbraith

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile - hoping that it will eat him last. - Sir Winston Churchill

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

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

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

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

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality. - Irish Murdoch

It's amazing what you can do with an E in A-Level art, a twisted imagination and a chainsaw. - Damien Hirst

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

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

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

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

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

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

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