Potting Pot

Life is brief, art is long. - Hippocrates

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

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

Art is either a plagiarist or a revolutionist. - Paul Gauguin

I teach the art of turning anguish into delight. - Georges Bataille

A Chicken in Every Pot and a Car in Every Garage - Herbert Hoover

Truth is simple, requiring neither study nor art. - Ammian

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

If that ain't the Black calling the kettle pot! - Archie Bunker

Art is making something out of nothing and selling it. - Frank Zappa

Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art. - Claude Debussy

Life doesn't imitate art; it imitates bad television. - Woody Allen

Art in nature is rhythmic and has a horror of constraint. - Robert Delaunay

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. - Albert Einstein

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

The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection. - Mechelangelo di Lodovico

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

Illusion is the dust the devil throws in the eyes of the foolish. - Minna Antrim

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

If thou art a master, sometimes be blind; if a servant, sometimes be deaf. - Thomas Fuller

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

I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough? - Vincent van Gogh

Italy is the home of art and swindling; home of religion and moral rottenness. - Mark Twain

Grantartica: The cold, isolated place where art companies dwell without funding - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Dancing is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made. - Ted Shawn

The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them. - Bernard M Baruch

Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid. - Walter Winchell

Like the cosmetics industry, the securities business is engaged in selling illusion. - Paul Samuelson

The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions which have been hidden by the answers. - James Baldwin

A half finished shawl left on the coffee table isn't a mess; it's an object of art. - Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left. - Alexander Pope

I have discovered the art of fooling diplomats. I speak the truth, and they never believe me. - Camillo Di Cavour

Liability: 1. The art of convincing others of your innocence; 2. A talent for telling untruths. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it. - Dwight D Eisenhower

America is a melting pot; the people at the bottom get burned while all the scum floats to the top. - Charlie King

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

The art of Biography
Is different from Geography.
Geography is about maps,
But Biography is about chaps. - G K Chesterton

Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other. - Oscar Ameringer

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

The physician should look upon the patient as a besieged city and try to rescue him with every means that art and science place at his command. - Alexander of Tralles