Redneck Potter's Wheel

Photographing a cake can be art. - Irving Penn

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

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

What is this, an audience or an oil painting? - Milton Berle

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

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

The pot finds its own herbs (Olera olla legit). - Latin Proverb

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

One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art. - Oscar Wilde

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

The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure. - Dale Carnegie

Advertising is the greatest art form of the twentieth century. - Marshall McLuhan

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

Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between. - David Letterman

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

I'm a guy who can't function well in life, but I can in art. - Woody Allen

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

The art of conversation is the art of hearing as well as of being heard. - William Hazlitt

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

I'm out there everyday amongst them, in the smelting pot of New York. - Archie Bunker

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

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

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

The squeaky wheel may get the most oil, but it's also the first to be replaced. - Marilyn Vos Savant

Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. - Gunter Grass

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

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

Anyone who thinks the art of conversation is dead ought to tell a child to go to bed. - Robert Gallagher

The art of art, the glory of expression, and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity. - Walt Whitman

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

A blind man can make art if what is in his mind can be passed to another mind in some tangible form. - Sol LeWitt

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

Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings. - Vicki Baum

I feel strongly that the visual arts are of vast importance. Of course I could be prejudiced. I am a visual art. - Kermit The Frog

Art is made to disturb. Science reassures. There is only one valuable thin in art: the thing you cannot explain. - Georges Braque

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

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

The man who makes no mistakes lacks boldness and the spirit of adventure. He never tries anything new. He is a brake on the wheels of progress. - M.W. Larmour