Tired Elephant

Art is a revolt against fate. - Andre Malraux

The secret of life is in art. - Oscar Wilde

A great nation deserves great art. - Art Delage

History develops, art stands still. - E.M. Forster

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

Done the elephants, done the poverty. - Phil Tufnell

Art is the signature of civilizations. - Beverly Sills

Education is the art of making man ethical. - Georg Hegel

The true art of memory is the art of attention. - Samuel Johnson

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

The only time I feel alive is when I'm painting. - Andy Warhol

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

Mathematical genius and artistic genius touch one another. - Gosta Mittag-Leffler

Art is the demonstration that the ordinary is extraordinary. - Amedee Ozenfant

I don't own a camera, so I travel with a police sketch artist. - George Carlin

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known. - Oscar Wilde

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

To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine. - Henry Ward Beecher

I have a memory like an elephant. I remember every elephant I've ever met. - Herb Caen

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

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

Oh, if it be to choose and call thee mine, love, thou art every day my Valentine! - Thomas Hood

Propaganda is the art of persuading others of what you don't believe yourself. - Abba Eban

The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions which have been hidden by the answers. - James Baldwin

The man who is ostentatious of his modesty is twin to the statue that wears a fig-leaf. - Mark Twain

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

The most potent and sacred command which can be laid upon any artist is the command: wait. - Iris Murdoch

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. - Oscar Wilde

The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient, whilst Mother Nature takes care of the cure. - Voltaire

Leadership is the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done. - Vance Packard

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

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

Just as the bird sings or the butterfly soars, because it is his natural characteristic, so the artist works. - Alma Gluck

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

Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message. - Malcolm Muggeridge

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

The greatest achievement of humanity is not its works of art, science, or technology, but the recognition of its own dysfunction. - Eckhart Tolle

Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other. - Oscar Ameringer

Art owes its origin to nature. This beautiful creation supplied the first model, while the original teacher was that divine intelligence. - Giorgio Vasari

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