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All art is quite useless. - Oscar Wilde

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Life is brief, art is long. - Hippocrates

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

What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art. - Augustus Saint-Gaudens

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

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

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

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

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

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

Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art. - F Scott Fitzgerald

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

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

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

A really well made buttonhole is the only link between art and nature. - Oscar Wilde

The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much. - William Hazlitt

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

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

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

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can inspire. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work. - Seth Godin

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

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. - Scott Adams

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

Art is the right hand of nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men. - Friedrich Schiller

It's amazing what you can do with an E in A-Level art, a twisted imagination and a chainsaw. - Damien Hirst

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

'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.' - W H Auden

Confidence, like art, never comes from having all the answers; it comes from being open to all the questions. - Earl Gray Stevens

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

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

Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other. - Oscar Ameringer

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

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