Tired Elephant

Life is brief, art is long. - Hippocrates

Art is the most beautiful of lies. - Claude Debussy

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

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

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

The art of a people is a true mirror to their minds. - Jawaharlal Nehru

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home. - Twyla Tharp

Making sushi is an art, and experience is everything. - Nobu Matsuhisa

The art of being a slave is to rule one's master. - Diogenes

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

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

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

Before they invented drawing boards, what did they go back to? - George Carlin

The art of mothering is to teach the art of living to children. - Elaine Heffner

Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between. - David Letterman

The Iranians and Persians are excellent at the art of negotiation. - Donald Trump

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

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

To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy. - Will Durant

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

Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. - John Kenneth Galbraith

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

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

Grantartica: The cold, isolated place where art companies dwell without funding - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

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

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

My roommate got a pet elephant. Then it got lost. It's in the apartment somewhere. - Steven Wright

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

In my house on the ceilings I have paintings of the rooms above, so I never have to go upstairs. - Steven Wright

The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic slice of truth, wisdom, is dying out. - Walter Benjamin

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

My love life is terrible. The last time I was inside a woman was when I visited the Statue of Liberty. - Woody Allen

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece. - Ludwig Erhard

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

Preaching is not the art of making a sermon and delivering it. Preaching is the art of making a preacher and delivering him. - Bishop Quayle

As an experienced artist, I carry my work like a secret pregnancy. I am always aware of inner life and the need to protect it. - Julia Cameron

The birch-bark canoe of the savage seems to me one of the most beautiful and perfect things of the kind constructed by human art. - William C. Bryant

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

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