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I view art as an inspirational tool. - Thomas Kincade

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

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

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

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

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

Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend. - John Singer Sargent

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

Chop your own wood, and it will warm you twice. - Henry Ford

Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence. - Joseph Krutch

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

I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting. - Jackson Pollock

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

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

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

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

To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature. - August Rodin

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

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

The immature artist imitates. The mature artist steals. - Lionel Trilling

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

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

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

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

They couldn't find the artist, so they hung the picture. - Unknown

I can look at the knot in a piece of wood until it frightens me. - William Blake

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

Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. - Aristotle

Xylophonist: A superstitious person who goes around knocking on wood - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

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

We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master. - Ernest Hemingway

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

If thou art a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf. - Thomas Fuller

In an artist's life, death is perhaps not the most difficult thing. - Vincent van Gogh

The art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on. - Henry H Ellis

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

A portrait is a picture in which there is something wrong with the mouth. - Eugene Speicher

Yesterday is ashes; tomorrow wood. Only today does the fire burn brightly. - Eskimo Proverb

Out of suffering comes creativity. You cannot spell painting without pain. - John Lithgow

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. - Emile Zola

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

You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul. - George Bernard Shaw

The practice of art isn't to make a living. It's to make your soul grow. - Kurt Vonnegut

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

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

John Wooden was a hall of fame character long before he was a hall of fame coach. - John C Maxwell

Perspective is to painting what the bridle is to the horse, the rudder to a ship. - Leonardo da Vinci

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. - Pablo Picasso

It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art. - Oscar Wilde

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

Before enlightenment: chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment: chop wood, carry water. - Zen Buddhist Saying

Art is the right hand of nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men. - Friedrich Schiller

In the cycle of a great civilization, the artist begins as priest, and ends as a clown or buffoon. - Malcolm Muggeridge

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

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

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. - John Kenneth Galbraith

Confidence, like art, never comes from having all the answers; it comes from being open to all the questions. - Earl Gray Stevens

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

It's tangible, it's solid, it's beautiful. It's artistic, from my standpoint, and I just love real estate. - Donald Trump

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

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

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

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

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