Trouser Iron

History develops, art stands still. - E.M. Forster

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

Art is a house that tries to be haunted. - Emily Dickinson

An art thief is a man who takes pictures. - George Carlin

Our humor turns our anger into a fine art. - Mary Kay Blakely

What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art. - Augustus Saint-Gaudens

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

I buried a lot of my ironing in the back yard. - Phyllis Diller

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

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

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

The art of government is the organization of idolatry. - George Bernard Shaw

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing. - Marcus Aurelius

What a strange illusion to suppose that beauty is goodness. - Leo Tolstoy

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

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

The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes. - Tony Blair

In the haunted house of life, art is the only stair that doesn't creak. - Tom Robbins

Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises. - Samuel Butler

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

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. - Scott Adams

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

Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experience treacherous, judgment difficult. - Hypocrites

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

What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet. - Woody Allen

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

My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint. - Erma Bombeck

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

The minute there's a map, there is no art. Paint by numbers is not art. Paint by numbers is a mechanical activity. - Seth Godin

If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him. - John F Kennedy

We all know that art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. - Pablo Picasso

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

Logic: the art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. - Ambrose Bierce

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

Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. - Donald Trump

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

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