Phillips Screw Faces

No Sane man will dance. - Cicero

Art is a revolt against fate. - Andre Malraux

Photographing a cake can be art. - Irving Penn

Every artist was first an amateur. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Vision is the art of seeing things invisible. - Jonathan Swift

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

An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one. - Charles Horton Cooley

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

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

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

Art is the demonstration that the ordinary is extraordinary. - Amedee Ozenfant

We need a leader that wrote "The Art of the Deal". - Donald Trump

Stand-up comedy is an art form and it dies unless you expand it. - Sam Kinison

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

Tact is the art of convincing people that they know more than you do. - Raymond Mortimer

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

In an artist's life, death is perhaps not the most difficult thing. - Vincent van Gogh

The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you. - Oscar Wilde

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

Oh, if it be to choose and call thee mine, love, thou art every day my Valentine! - Thomas Hood

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

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. - Albert Einstein

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

In my house on the ceilings I have paintings of the rooms above, so I never have to go upstairs. - Steven Wright

The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient, whilst Mother Nature takes care of the cure. - Voltaire

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance. - e e cummings

The mission of the artist in an over-technologized society, is to call the old magic back to life. - Tom Robbins

The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic slice of truth, wisdom, is dying out. - Walter Benjamin

Visual storytelling of one kind or another has been around since cavemen were drawing on the walls. - Frank Darabont

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

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

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

The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up. - Jay Leno

Despite all our toil and progress, the art of medicine still falls somewhere between trout casting and spook writing. - Ben Hecht

The biggest thing separating people from their artistic ambitions is not a lack of talent. It's the lack of a deadline. - Chris Baty

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

When it began, cubism was a sort of analysis, which was no more painting than the description of physical phenomena was physics. - Juan Gris

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

Humility is becoming a lost art, but it's not difficult to practice. It means that you realize that others have been involved in your success. - Harvey Mackay