Sawfish Sword

All art is quite useless. - Oscar Wilde

Photographing a cake can be art. - Irving Penn

The artist in me cries out for design. - Robert Frost

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

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

An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one. - Charles Horton Cooley

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

Art is not what you see, but what you make others see. - Degas

The art of communication is the language of leadership. - James Humes

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

Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art. - F Scott Fitzgerald

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

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

Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it shall perish by it. - Edward Gibbon

It is a symbol of Irish art. The cracked looking-glass of a servant. - James Joyce

I'm a guy who can't function well in life, but I can in art. - Woody Allen

The role of the artist today is to defend feeling against the machine. - Marty Rubin

The art challenges the technology, and the technology inspires the art. - John Lasseter

Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart go together. - John Ruskin

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

I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough? - Vincent van Gogh

Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises. - Samuel Butler

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can inspire. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better. - Andre Gide

Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it. - Laurence J Peter

No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time. It is just that the others are behind the time. - Martha Graham

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. - Aristotle

Leadership: The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. - Dwight D Eisenhower

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

So many tangles in life are ultimately hopeless that we have no appropriate sword other than laughter. - Gordon W Allport

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

To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way. - E M Forster

The biggest thing separating people from their artistic ambitions is not a lack of talent. It's the lack of a deadline. - Chris Baty

Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting, or living itself, which is the greatest art of all. - Ray Bradbury

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

The only happy artist is a dead artist, because only then you can't change. After I die, I'll probably come back as a paintbrush. - Sylvester Stallone

People ask about art and commercialism. I think that if someone tries to sell their work at a high price, that is the wrong way of doing it. - Yayoi Kusama

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