Straws

All art is quite useless. - Oscar Wilde

Art is the most beautiful of lies. - Claude Debussy

The painting has a life of its own. - Jackson Pollock

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

Education is the art of making man ethical. - Georg Hegel

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

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

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

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

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

The art of love is largely the art of persistence. - Albert Ellis

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

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

Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art. - Claude Debussy

It's the final straw that broke the camel's back. - English Proverb

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

Management is a practice where art, science, and craft meet. - Henry Mintzberg

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

The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection. - Mechelangelo di Lodovico

In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport. - Julia Child

Stand-up comedy is an art form and it dies unless you expand it. - Sam Kinison

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

Oratory is the art of making a loud noise seem like a deep thought. - American Proverb

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

We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master. - Ernest Hemingway

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

Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing. - Ralph Richardson

Perspective is to painting what the bridle is to the horse, the rudder to a ship. - Leonardo da Vinci

It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art. - Oscar Wilde

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

In my house on the ceilings I have paintings of the rooms above, so I never have to go upstairs. - Steven Wright

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

It's not your painting anymore. It stopped being your painting the moment that you finished it. - Jeff Melvoin

Art is a human activity having for its purpose the transmission to others of the highest and best feelings. - Leo Tolstoy

Build. Destroy. Rebuild. I've mastered the art of bouncing back. Now to master the art of not having to. - Unknown

Preaching is not the art of making a sermon and delivering it. Preaching is the art of making a preacher and delivering him. - Bishop Quayle

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

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