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The secret of life is in art. - Oscar Wilde

One does not marry art. One ravishes it. - Edgar Degas

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

Vision is the art of seeing things invisible. - Jonathan Swift

Life is the art of drawing without an eraser. - John Gardner

Art is either a plagiarist or a revolutionist. - Paul Gauguin

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

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

Truth is simple, requiring neither study nor art. - Ammian

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

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

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home. - Twyla Tharp

Writing is throwing spaghetti at a wall to see what sticks. - Kelly E. Lindner

The new job of art is to sit on the wall and get more expensive. - Robert Hughes

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

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. - Thomas Merton

A really well made buttonhole is the only link between art and nature. - Oscar Wilde

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

To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy. - Will Durant

The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes. - Tony Blair

There are moments when Art almost attains to the dignity of manual labor. - Oscar Wilde

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

Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door. - Coco Chanel

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

Actions, looks, words and steps form the alphabet by which you may spell character. - Johann Kasper Lavater

A half finished shawl left on the coffee table isn't a mess; it's an object of art. - Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

Let Wall Street have a nightmare and the whole country has to help get them back in bed again. - Will Rogers

Most of us can read the writing on the wall; we just assume it's addressed to someone else. - Ivern Ball

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

The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I went to the museum where they had all the heads and arms from the statues that are in all the other museums. - Steven Wright

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

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

It's tangible, it's solid, it's beautiful. It's artistic, from my standpoint, and I just love real estate. - Donald Trump

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

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy. - Groucho Marx

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

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

Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of words. - Franz Liszt

Humility is becoming a lost art, but it's not difficult to practice. It means that you realize that others have been involved in your success. - Harvey Mackay