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All art is quite useless. - Oscar Wilde

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

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

What is this, an audience or an oil painting? - Milton Berle

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

Magic: An art of converting superstition into coin - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

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

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

Art is making something out of nothing and selling it. - Frank Zappa

The art of government is the organization of idolatry. - George Bernard Shaw

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

Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory. - Oscar Wilde

Art in nature is rhythmic and has a horror of constraint. - Robert Delaunay

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

We need a leader that wrote "The Art of the Deal". - Donald Trump

I'm walking backwards for Christmas Across the Irish Sea. - Spike Milligan

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

Stand-up comedy is an art form and it dies unless you expand it. - Sam Kinison

There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome. - Andre Gide

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

Pickup artist: An artist whose specialty is painting pictures of trucks - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work. - Seth Godin

Diplomacy is the art of saying, "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock. - Will Rogers

If my Valentine you won't be,
I'll hang myself on your Christmas tree. - Ernest Hemingway

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. - Scott Adams

Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. - Gunter Grass

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

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

It's not your painting anymore. It stopped being your painting the moment that you finished it. - Jeff Melvoin

Build. Destroy. Rebuild. I've mastered the art of bouncing back. Now to master the art of not having to. - Unknown

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 gave my young nephew a book for Christmas. He's spent six months looking for where to put the batteries. - Milton Berle

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

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

The minute there's a map, there is no art. Paint by numbers is not art. Paint by numbers is a mechanical activity. - Seth Godin

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living. - Frederic Amiel

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