Modern Santa Claus

Art is the most beautiful of lies. - Claude Debussy

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

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

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

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

The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity. - Douglas Horton

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

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

Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life. - Oscar Wilde

Love the art in yourself, not yourself in the art. - Constantin Stanislavski

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

The only time I feel alive is when I'm painting. - Andy Warhol

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

The art of being a slave is to rule one's master. - Diogenes

I get really grinchy right up until Christmas morning. - Dan Aykroyd

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

Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue. - Joseph Addison

Anyone who says you can't see a thought simply doesn't know art. - Wynetka Ann Reynolds

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

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

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

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease. - Voltaire

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

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order. - Alfred N Whitehead

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. - Albert Einstein

Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age. - Aristotle

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

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

I still have my Christmas Tree. I looked at it today. Sure enough, I couldn't see any forests. - Steven Wright

The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic slice of truth, wisdom, is dying out. - Walter Benjamin

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

Visual storytelling of one kind or another has been around since cavemen were drawing on the walls. - Frank Darabont

Psychiatry is the art of teaching people how to stand on their own two feet while reclining on couches. - Sigmund Freud

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece. - Ludwig Erhard

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

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

Logic: the art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. - Ambrose Bierce

For me, the drive is storytelling. To be a part of an art that tells a story and to be a catalyst, a color in that, is very exciting. - Alden Ehrenreich

I adore art. When I am alone with my notes, my heart pounds and the tears stream from my eyes, and my emotion and my joys are too much to bear. - Guiseppe Verdi

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