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Life is brief, art is long. - Hippocrates

Art is a revolt against fate. - Andre Malraux

Politics is the art of the possible. - Otto von Bismarck

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

If that's art, I'm a Hottentot! - Harry S Truman

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

God is not interested in your art but, your heart. - Ifeanyi E. Onuoha

The art of a people is a true mirror to their minds. - Jawaharlal Nehru

The 'Earth' without art is just 'eh'. - Unknown

The art of being a slave is to rule one's master. - Diogenes

Value Investing: The art of buying low and selling lower - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

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

Management is a practice where art, science, and craft meet. - Henry Mintzberg

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

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

Art doesn't reproduce the visible but rather makes it visible. - Paul Klee

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

Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature? - Charles Baudelaire

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

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

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

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

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

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

Jealousy is the art of counting someone else's blessings instead of your own. - Unknown

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease. - Voltaire

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

Prophecy: The art and practice of selling one's credibility for future delivery. - Ambrose Bierce

Leadership is the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done. - Vance Packard

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

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

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached. - Simone Weil

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

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

Confidence, like art, never comes from having all the answers; it comes from being open to all the questions. - Earl Gray Stevens

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

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

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other. - Voltaire

I adore art. When I am alone with my notes, my heart pounds and the tears stream from my eyes, and my emotion and my joys are too much to bear. - Guiseppe Verdi