Doorpaper

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

Art is the most beautiful of lies. - Claude Debussy

Art is the signature of civilizations. - Beverly Sills

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

I teach the art of turning anguish into delight. - Georges Bataille

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

A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art. - Paul Cezanne

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday. - Don Marquis

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

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

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

Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between. - David Letterman

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

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

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

Life beats down and crushes the soul, but art reminds you that you have one. - Stella Adler

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

Oh, if it be to choose and call thee mine, love, thou art every day my Valentine! - Thomas Hood

Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on. - Robert Frost

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

The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity. - Andre Gide

Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid. - Walter Winchell

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

My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One of the other of us has to go. - Oscar Wilde

The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions which have been hidden by the answers. - James Baldwin

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

The fall of the Berlin Wall makes for nice pictures. But it all started in the shipyards. - Lech Walesa

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. - Aristotle

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

It is our art that has an opportunity to leave a footprint in the sand. They don't wrap fish in our work. - Hugh N Jacobsen

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

I feel strongly that the visual arts are of vast importance. Of course I could be prejudiced. I am a visual art. - Kermit The Frog

'Tis not always in a physician's power to cure the sick; at times the disease is stronger than trained art. - Ovid

Do you think courage means being fearless? Or daring? Courage, real courage, is taking three steps when it terrifies you. - Catherine Anderson

Freedom has many difficulties and democracy is not perfect. But we have never had to put a wall up to keep our people in. - John F Kennedy

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

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

My writing philosophy is throwing spaghetti against the wall. That's how I take pictures, too. If I take 100, surely one will be good. - Amanda Peet