Pressing Art

Life is brief, art is long. - Hippocrates

Photographing a cake can be art. - Irving Penn

A great nation deserves great art. - Art Delage

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

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin. - William Shakespeare

She caught a touch of laryngosis from the smoke. - Archie Bunker

Logic is neither science nor an art, but a dodge. - Benjamin Jowett

Politics is the art of controlling your environment. - Hunter S. Thompson

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

Making sushi is an art, and experience is everything. - Nobu Matsuhisa

I wouldn't let him touch me with a ten-foot pole. - Mae West

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

Get in touch with your passion and put it to work at work. - Marilyn Suttle

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. - Oscar Wilde

Advertising is the greatest art form of the twentieth century. - Marshall McLuhan

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

I now touch nothing stronger than buttermilk: 90-proof buttermilk. - WC Fields

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

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

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known. - Oscar Wilde

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

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

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

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

I don't consider myself a heavy drinker, I often go hours without touching a drop. - Noel Coward

Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experience treacherous, judgment difficult. - Hypocrites

A half finished shawl left on the coffee table isn't a mess; it's an object of art. - Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

Fang and I are always fighting. When we get up in the morning, we don't kiss; we touch gloves. - Phyllis Diller

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

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

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece. - Ludwig Erhard

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

The minute there's a map, there is no art. Paint by numbers is not art. Paint by numbers is a mechanical activity. - Seth Godin

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

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

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

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