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Life is brief, art is long. - Hippocrates

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

Art is the signature of civilizations. - Beverly Sills

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

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

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

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

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

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

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. - Pablo Picasso

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

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. - Oscar Wilde

Art is the demonstration that the ordinary is extraordinary. - Amedee Ozenfant

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting. - Sun Tzu

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

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination. - Voltaire

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

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

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known. - Oscar Wilde

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

Out of suffering comes creativity. You cannot spell painting without pain. - John Lithgow

We have art so that we do not die of reality. Reality is too much with us. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

I phoned my Dad to tell him I had stopped smoking. He called me a quitter. - Steven Pearl

Humour is a rubber sword - it allows you to make a point without drawing blood. - Mary Hirsch

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

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

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art. - Eleanor Roosevelt

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

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

It's amazing what you can do with an E in A-Level art, a twisted imagination and a chainsaw. - Damien Hirst

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

Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and acitivty of man's nature. - Robert South

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

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

When it began, cubism was a sort of analysis, which was no more painting than the description of physical phenomena was physics. - Juan Gris

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

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival. - C S Lewis