Pressing Art

Photographing a cake can be art. - Irving Penn

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

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

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

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

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

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet. - Plato

Art is either a plagiarist or a revolutionist. - Paul Gauguin

The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook. - William James

Art is not what you see, but what you make others see. - Degas

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

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

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

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art. - Susan Sontag

One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art. - Oscar Wilde

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

Tact is the art of convincing people that they know more than you do. - Raymond Mortimer

There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome. - Andre Gide

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

The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes. - Tony Blair

Truth is as impossible to be soiled by any outward touch as the sunbeam. - John Milton

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

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

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

Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on. - Robert Frost

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

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

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

Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid. - Walter Winchell

Shopping: The fine art of acquiring things you don't need with money you don't have. - Unknown

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

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

Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself, and know that everything in this life has purpose. - Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

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

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy. - Groucho Marx

Logic: the art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. - Ambrose Bierce

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

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival. - C S Lewis

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

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