Creative Vandalism

Art is a revolt against fate. - Andre Malraux

My trade and my art is living. - Michel De Montaigne

Every artist was first an amateur. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

I view art as an inspirational tool. - Thomas Kincade

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

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

To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature. - August Rodin

The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery. - Francis Bacon

Botany: The art of insulting flowers in Greek and Latin. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

If you're already walking on thin ice, you might as well dance. - Proverb

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

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

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

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

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. - Emile Zola

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

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

We dance in a circle and suppose, while the secret sits in the middle and knows. - Robert Frost

Let your life lightly dance on the edges of time, like dew on the tip of a leaf. - Unknown

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease. - Voltaire

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order. - Alfred N Whitehead

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. - Oscar Wilde

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

Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it. - Dwight D Eisenhower

A creative artist works on his next composition because he was not satisfied with his previous one. - Dmitri Shostakovich

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

Boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music, no choreography, and the dancers hit each other. - Jack Handey

Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted in spite of your changing moods. - C S Lewis

Because I'm an artist, I can't ever consider myself a nihilist, so I suppose I'm optimistic. - Marilyn Manson

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

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

Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings. - Vicki Baum

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living. - Frederic Amiel

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

For me, the drive is storytelling. To be a part of an art that tells a story and to be a catalyst, a color in that, is very exciting. - Alden Ehrenreich

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

The only happy artist is a dead artist, because only then you can't change. After I die, I'll probably come back as a paintbrush. - Sylvester Stallone

Drink and dance and laugh and lie,
Love, the reeling midnight through,
For tomorrow we shall die!
(But, alas, we never do.) - Dorothy Parker

My wife was a make-up artist, and she's a total product junkie. Our bathroom is packed full of lotions and potions so I end up trying them out. - Robert Carlyle