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All art is quite useless. - Oscar Wilde

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

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

Vision is the art of seeing things invisible. - Jonathan Swift

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

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

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

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

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

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

Last week, I went to Philadelphia, but it was closed. - WC Fields

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

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

The art of communication is the language of leadership. - James Humes

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

Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art. - Claude Debussy

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

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

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

Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature? - Charles Baudelaire

The art challenges the technology, and the technology inspires the art. - John Lasseter

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

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

We have art so that we do not die of reality. Reality is too much with us. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Anyone who thinks the art of conversation is dead ought to tell a child to go to bed. - Robert Gallagher

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art. - Eleanor Roosevelt

A half finished shawl left on the coffee table isn't a mess; it's an object of art. - Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Outcomes rarely turn on grand gestures or the art of the deal, but on whether you've sent someone a thank-you note. - Bernie Brillstein

If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him. - John F Kennedy

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

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