Below Ground

Photographing a cake can be art. - Irving Penn

Art is the most beautiful of lies. - Claude Debussy

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

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

Maintenance is as much art as it is science. - Unknown

We have art to save ourselves from the truth. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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

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

A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing. - Clive James

Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence. - Joseph Krutch

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

Politics is the art of controlling your environment. - Hunter S. Thompson

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

Life is a dance. Mindfulness is witnessing that dance. - Amit Ray

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

I don't own a camera, so I travel with a police sketch artist. - George Carlin

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

The fine art of preparing sushi is something that you watch and learn. - Nobu Matsuhisa

A painting is never finished — it simply stops in interesting places. - Paul Gardner

The key to a healthy lawn is to take care of what happens below ground. - Mike Bechtle

In an artist's life, death is perhaps not the most difficult thing. - Vincent van Gogh

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

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

To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine. - Henry Ward Beecher

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

The trouble with dancing naked is that not everything stops when the music does. - Unknown

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

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. - Albert Einstein

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better. - Andre Gide

Copy nature and you infringe on the work of our Lord. Interpret nature and you are an artist. - Jacques Lipchitz

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance. - e e cummings

It's not your painting anymore. It stopped being your painting the moment that you finished it. - Jeff Melvoin

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

Psychiatry is the art of teaching people how to stand on their own two feet while reclining on couches. - Sigmund Freud

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

Outcomes rarely turn on grand gestures or the art of the deal, but on whether you've sent someone a thank-you note. - Bernie Brillstein

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

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

You can imagine me as a kid growing up in redneck Texas with ballet shoes, tucking the violin under my arm. I had to fight my way up. - Patrick Swayze

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