World's Oldest Menorah

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

Politics is the art of the possible. - Otto von Bismarck

Art is the signature of civilizations. - Beverly Sills

Well-behaved women seldom make history. - Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

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

An art thief is a man who takes pictures. - George Carlin

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

History will never accept difficulties as an excuse. - John F Kennedy

Politics is the art of controlling your environment. - Hunter S. Thompson

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery. - Mark Van Doren

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

History is a vision of God's creation on the move. - Arnold J. Toynbee

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing. - Marcus Aurelius

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

Life doesn't imitate art; it imitates bad television. - Woody Allen

Management is a practice where art, science, and craft meet. - Henry Mintzberg

People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them. - James A. Baldwin

The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure. - Dale Carnegie

It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature. - Henry James

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

It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition. - Henry James

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

Our old history ends with the cross; our new history begins with the resurrection. - Watchman Nee

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

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

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

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

I have drawn inspiration from the Marine Corps, the Jewish struggle in Palestine and Israel, and the Irish. - Leon Uris

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

Art is made to disturb. Science reassures. There is only one valuable thin in art: the thing you cannot explain. - Georges Braque

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

How many ideas have there been in the history of the human race that were unthinkable ten years before they appeared? - Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power. - Robert Frost

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

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside. - John F Kennedy

If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm any hostility. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic. - Bertrand Russell