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The secret of life is in art. - Oscar Wilde

Follow the grain in your own wood. - Howard Thurman

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

Art is anything you can get away with. - Marshall McLuhan

If that's art, I'm a Hottentot! - Harry S Truman

I teach the art of turning anguish into delight. - Georges Bataille

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

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

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

The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery. - Francis Bacon

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

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

Value Investing: The art of buying low and selling lower - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Wood burns faster when you have to cut and chop it yourself. - Harrison Ford

Advertising is the greatest art form of the twentieth century. - Marshall McLuhan

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

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

Tact is the art of convincing people that they know more than you do. - Raymond Mortimer

A really well made buttonhole is the only link between art and nature. - Oscar Wilde

Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it. - Robert Motherwell

A painting is never finished — it simply stops in interesting places. - Paul Gardner

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

The great art of life is sensation; to feel that we exist, even in pain. - Lord Byron

The art of conversation is the art of hearing as well as of being heard. - William Hazlitt

The mind is not a vessel that needs filling but wood that needs igniting. - Plutarch

All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography. - Frederico Fellini

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

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

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

It is through art, and through art only, that we can realize our perfection. - Oscar Wilde

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

An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have. - Andy Warhol

The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you. - Oscar Wilde

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

I love contemporary art, although I wouldn't want a pickled shark in my house. - Bruno Tonioli

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

As the sculptor devotes himself to wood and stone, I would devote myself to my soul. - Toyohiko Kagawa

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

Anyone who thinks the art of conversation is dead ought to tell a child to go to bed. - Robert Gallagher

To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist. - Robert Schumann

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul and paints his own nature into his pictures. - Henry Ward Beecher

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art. - Eleanor Roosevelt

Writing is very much a playground - an artistic playground. It's the most fun thing I do. - Shania Twain

I have discovered the art of fooling diplomats. I speak the truth, and they never believe me. - Camillo Di Cavour

A creative artist works on his next composition because he was not satisfied with his previous one. - Dmitri Shostakovich

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

Wood: That remarkable material which burns so easily in a forest and with such difficulty in a fireplace - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. - Albert Einstein

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

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

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

That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward. - Ernest Hemingway

'Tis not always in a physician's power to cure the sick; at times the disease is stronger than trained art. - Ovid

The minute there's a map, there is no art. Paint by numbers is not art. Paint by numbers is a mechanical activity. - Seth Godin

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

The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind. - Paracelsus

An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation. - Joseph Conrad

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

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

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies. - Napoleon Bonaparte

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

My wife was a make-up artist, and she's a total product junkie. Our bathroom is packed full of lotions and potions so I end up trying them out. - Robert Carlyle