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My trade and my art is living. - Michel De Montaigne

Dust thou art, to dust returnest. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

Art is the signature of civilizations. - Beverly Sills

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

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

Logic is neither science nor an art, but a dodge. - Benjamin Jowett

I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting. - Jackson Pollock

The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook. - William James

Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace. - Oscar Wilde

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

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

Making sushi is an art, and experience is everything. - Nobu Matsuhisa

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

Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing. - Robert Benchley

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

Mathematical genius and artistic genius touch one another. - Gosta Mittag-Leffler

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

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

It is a symbol of Irish art. The cracked looking-glass of a servant. - James Joyce

Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. - Aristotle

Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing. - Ralph Richardson

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can. - Danny Kaye

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

I love contemporary art, although I wouldn't want a pickled shark in my house. - Bruno Tonioli

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

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

A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left. - Alexander Pope

What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying. - Oscar Wilde

I have a wonderful make-up crew. They're the same people restoring the Statue of Liberty. - Bob Hope

I have discovered the art of fooling diplomats. I speak the truth, and they never believe me. - Camillo Di Cavour

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

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

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

What's the earth with all its art, verse, music, worth -
Compared with love, found, gained, and kept? - Robert Browning

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

If it's flipping hamburgers at McDonald's, be the best hamburger flipper in the world. Whatever it is you do you have to master your craft. - Snoop Dogg