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

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

Art is the signature of civilizations. - Beverly Sills

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

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

The true art of memory is the art of attention. - Samuel Johnson

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

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

Good work rarely sells. I believe this of any art. - Arthur W Pinero

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

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

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

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

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

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

The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection. - Mechelangelo di Lodovico

In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport. - Julia Child

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

Riding: The art of keeping a horse between yourself and the ground - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

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

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

Italy is the home of art and swindling; home of religion and moral rottenness. - Mark Twain

Perspective is to painting what the bridle is to the horse, the rudder to a ship. - Leonardo da Vinci

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

I should rather men ask why no statue has been erected in my honour, than why one has. - Marcus Porcius Cato

The man who is ostentatious of his modesty is twin to the statue that wears a fig-leaf. - Mark Twain

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

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

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad. - Salvador Dali

My love life is terrible. The last time I was inside a woman was when I visited the Statue of Liberty. - Woody Allen

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

Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself. - Bertrand Russell

Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message. - Malcolm Muggeridge

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

The birch-bark canoe of the savage seems to me one of the most beautiful and perfect things of the kind constructed by human art. - William C. Bryant

People ask about art and commercialism. I think that if someone tries to sell their work at a high price, that is the wrong way of doing it. - Yayoi Kusama

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

Art is the window to man's soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see the man within. - Claudia Johnson