Pressing Art

Life is brief, art is long. - Hippocrates

Art is a revolt against fate. - Andre Malraux

The secret of life is in art. - Oscar Wilde

All of nature is God's art. - Dante

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

Art is a house that tries to be haunted. - Emily Dickinson

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

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

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

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

Magic: An art of converting superstition into coin - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home. - Twyla Tharp

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

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

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

The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure. - Dale Carnegie

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

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

It is through art, and through art only, that we can realize our perfection. - Oscar Wilde

Life beats down and crushes the soul, but art reminds you that you have one. - Stella Adler

I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough? - Vincent van Gogh

Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. - Diane Ackerman

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

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

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

The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity. - Andre Gide

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better. - Andre Gide

Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it. - Laurence J Peter

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

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

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

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

Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same. - Helen Keller

Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting, or living itself, which is the greatest art of all. - Ray Bradbury

The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind. - Paracelsus

Some men's ambition is art, some men's ambition is fame, some men's ambition is gold. My ambition is the souls of men. - William Booth

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

Art owes its origin to nature. This beautiful creation supplied the first model, while the original teacher was that divine intelligence. - Giorgio Vasari

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