Pressing Art

Life is brief, art is long. - Hippocrates

The secret of life is in art. - Oscar Wilde

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

The human body is the best work of art. - Jess C. Scott

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

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

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

The art of a people is a true mirror to their minds. - Jawaharlal Nehru

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

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

Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory. - Oscar Wilde

Never touch your idols: the gilding will stick to your fingers. - Gustave Flaubert

It is a symbol of Irish art. The cracked looking-glass of a servant. - James Joyce

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

Break the ice in a crowded elevator by asking how much everyone weighs. - Bill Murray

The art of conversation is the art of hearing as well as of being heard. - William Hazlitt

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

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

Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. - John Kenneth Galbraith

To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine. - Henry Ward Beecher

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

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

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 elevator to success is out of order. You'll have to use the stairs... one step at a time. - Joe Girard

When you’re a nurse you know that every day you will touch a life or a life will touch yours. - Unknown

A blind man can make art if what is in his mind can be passed to another mind in some tangible form. - Sol LeWitt

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. - John Kenneth Galbraith

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

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

Learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn. - Peter F Drucker

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

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

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

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

Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home. - Edith Sitwell