Center Square Peg

Art is the most beautiful of lies. - Claude Debussy

History develops, art stands still. - E.M. Forster

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

Politics is the art of the possible. - Otto von Bismarck

All great art comes from a sense of outrage. - Glenn Close

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

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

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

The art of being a slave is to rule one's master. - Diogenes

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery. - Mark Van Doren

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

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

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

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

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday. - Don Marquis

Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity. - Yoko Ono

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

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

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

Anyone who says you can't see a thought simply doesn't know art. - Wynetka Ann Reynolds

All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography. - Frederico Fellini

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

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

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

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

Leadership is the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done. - Vance Packard

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

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

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

'Tis not always in a physician's power to cure the sick; at times the disease is stronger than trained art. - Ovid

Despite all our toil and progress, the art of medicine still falls somewhere between trout casting and spook writing. - Ben Hecht

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

We all know that art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. - Pablo Picasso

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

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

The physician should look upon the patient as a besieged city and try to rescue him with every means that art and science place at his command. - Alexander of Tralles

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