Pressing Art

All art is quite useless. - Oscar Wilde

Life is brief, art is long. - Hippocrates

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

Art is the signature of civilizations. - Beverly Sills

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

What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art. - Augustus Saint-Gaudens

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

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

God is not interested in your art but, your heart. - Ifeanyi E. Onuoha

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

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

The art of government is the organization of idolatry. - George Bernard Shaw

The art of communication is the language of leadership. - James Humes

Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Art in nature is rhythmic and has a horror of constraint. - Robert Delaunay

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

We need a leader that wrote "The Art of the Deal". - Donald Trump

The Iranians and Persians are excellent at the art of negotiation. - Donald Trump

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

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

There are moments when Art almost attains to the dignity of manual labor. - Oscar Wilde

The practice of art isn't to make a living. It's to make your soul grow. - Kurt Vonnegut

Jealousy is the art of counting someone else's blessings instead of your own. - Unknown

Propaganda is the art of persuading others of what you don't believe yourself. - Abba Eban

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art. - Eleanor Roosevelt

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

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

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

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

Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself. - Bertrand Russell

I feel strongly that the visual arts are of vast importance. Of course I could be prejudiced. I am a visual art. - Kermit The Frog

Art is made to disturb. Science reassures. There is only one valuable thin in art: the thing you cannot explain. - Georges Braque

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

Faith is belief in what you cannot see or prove or touch. Faith is walking face-first and full-speed into the dark. - Elizabeth Gilbert

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

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

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other. - Voltaire

He either fears his fate too much,
Or his deserts are small,
Who dares not put it to the touch
To gain or lose it all - Marquis of Montrose

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