Modern Santa Claus

Santa's Guh-nomes - Archie Bunker

All art is quite useless. - Oscar Wilde

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

Art is the signature of civilizations. - Beverly Sills

Our humor turns our anger into a fine art. - Mary Kay Blakely

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

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

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

Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace. - Oscar Wilde

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

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art. - Susan Sontag

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

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

Santa Claus has the right idea. Visit people only once a year. - Victor Borge

Art doesn't reproduce the visible but rather makes it visible. - Paul Klee

The Iranians and Persians are excellent at the art of negotiation. - Donald Trump

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

The fine art of preparing sushi is something that you watch and learn. - Nobu Matsuhisa

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

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

Dancing is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made. - Ted Shawn

Jealousy is the art of counting someone else's blessings instead of your own. - Unknown

The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them. - Bernard M Baruch

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

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

Aren't we forgetting the true meaning of Christmas? You know, the birth of Santa. - Bart Simpson

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

What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying. - Oscar Wilde

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

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

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

Might make a real good Christmas present for the uninformed. The book is called 'Taking America Back.' - Paul Harvey

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

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

A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together. - Garrison Keillor

When it began, cubism was a sort of analysis, which was no more painting than the description of physical phenomena was physics. - Juan Gris

I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph. - Shirley Temple

Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. - Donald Trump

Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor. - Andre Gide

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