The Truth

All art is quite useless. - Oscar Wilde

Life is brief, art is long. - Hippocrates

The secret of life is in art. - Oscar Wilde

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

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

The human body is the best work of art. - Jess C. Scott

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

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

Magic: An art of converting superstition into coin - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

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

Art is not what you see, but what you make others see. - Degas

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

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

The art of mothering is to teach the art of living to children. - Elaine Heffner

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

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

Oratory is the art of making a loud noise seem like a deep thought. - American Proverb

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

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

It is through art, and through art only, that we can realize our perfection. - Oscar Wilde

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can inspire. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work. - Seth Godin

Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. - William Congreve

Propaganda is the art of persuading others of what you don't believe yourself. - Abba Eban

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge. - Daniel J. Boorstin

Never pay attention to what critics say. Remember, a statue has never been set up in honor of a critic. - Jean Sibelius

Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted in spite of your changing moods. - C S Lewis

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

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

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

'Tis not always in a physician's power to cure the sick; at times the disease is stronger than trained art. - Ovid

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

Toy Soldiers was my introduction to film. I certainly didn't think I was doing art by any stretch of the imagination. - Tim Robbins

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

The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind. - Paracelsus

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