Leonardo da Vinci's Unfinished Portrait

A great nation deserves great art. - Art Delage

Art is the most beautiful of lies. - Claude Debussy

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

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

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

Our humor turns our anger into a fine art. - Mary Kay Blakely

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

Now I know what a ghost is. Unfinished business. - Salman Rushdie

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

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

Art is making something out of nothing and selling it. - Frank Zappa

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

Painting is stronger than me, it makes me do its bidding. - Pablo Picasso

Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability. - William Osler

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls. - Pablo Picasso

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

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

We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master. - Ernest Hemingway

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

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

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

Italy is the home of art and swindling; home of religion and moral rottenness. - Mark Twain

Dancing is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made. - Ted Shawn

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

Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. - Gunter Grass

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

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

What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying. - Oscar Wilde

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

Psychiatry is the art of teaching people how to stand on their own two feet while reclining on couches. - Sigmund Freud

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 a human activity having for its purpose the transmission to others of the highest and best feelings. - Leo Tolstoy

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

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

I feel strongly that the visual arts are of vast importance. Of course I could be prejudiced. I am a visual art. - Kermit The Frog

Toy Soldiers was my introduction to film. I certainly didn't think I was doing art by any stretch of the imagination. - Tim Robbins

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

Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen. - Pablo Picasso

Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor. - Andre Gide