Leonardo da Vinci's Unfinished Portrait

Life is brief, art is long. - Hippocrates

Dust thou art, to dust returnest. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

A great nation deserves great art. - Art Delage

The painting has a life of its own. - Jackson Pollock

I view art as an inspirational tool. - Thomas Kincade

Any idealism is a proper subject for art. - Lafcadio Hearn

Maintenance is as much art as it is science. - Unknown

Life is the art of drawing without an eraser. - John Gardner

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

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

The 'Earth' without art is just 'eh'. - Unknown

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. - Pablo Picasso

Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory. - Oscar Wilde

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

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

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul. - Joseph Addison

It is a symbol of Irish art. The cracked looking-glass of a servant. - James Joyce

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

The fine art of preparing sushi is something that you watch and learn. - Nobu Matsuhisa

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

In the haunted house of life, art is the only stair that doesn't creak. - Tom Robbins

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

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

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

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

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

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

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. - Albert Einstein

Names are not always what they seem. The common Welsh name BZJXXLLWCP is pronounced Jackson. - Mark Twain

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

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

It is our art that has an opportunity to leave a footprint in the sand. They don't wrap fish in our work. - Hugh N Jacobsen

What's the earth with all its art, verse, music, worth -
Compared with love, found, gained, and kept? - Robert Browning

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

Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting, or living itself, which is the greatest art of all. - Ray Bradbury

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

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

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

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