Street Art

The secret of life is in art. - Oscar Wilde

Easy Street is a blind alley. - Unknown

Art is the signature of civilizations. - Beverly Sills

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

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

A man in the house is worth two in the street. - Mae West

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

Love the art in yourself, not yourself in the art. - Constantin Stanislavski

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

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing. - Marcus Aurelius

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

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

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

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

The new job of art is to sit on the wall and get more expensive. - Robert Hughes

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

Oratory is the art of making a loud noise seem like a deep thought. - American Proverb

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

All you need to grow fine, vigorous grass is a crack in your sidewalk. - Will Rogers

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

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

Goat: A lamb who has kidded himself into believing that he knows Wall Street - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

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

Jealousy is the art of counting someone else's blessings instead of your own. - Unknown

Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on. - Robert Frost

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

It's not your painting anymore. It stopped being your painting the moment that you finished it. - Jeff Melvoin

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

Build. Destroy. Rebuild. I've mastered the art of bouncing back. Now to master the art of not having to. - Unknown

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

Logic: the art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. - Ambrose Bierce

Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. - Donald Trump

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

Aging: 1. A supposed ripening into wisdom that most Westerners attempt to delay as long as possible; 2. A one-way street with no stoplights. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon sing in the street. - W H Auden

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

Humility is becoming a lost art, but it's not difficult to practice. It means that you realize that others have been involved in your success. - Harvey Mackay