Straws

All art is quite useless. - Oscar Wilde

Life is brief, art is long. - Hippocrates

Art is a revolt against fate. - Andre Malraux

It's a beautiful beege color. - Archie Bunker

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

I view art as an inspirational tool. - Thomas Kincade

If that's art, I'm a Hottentot! - Harry S Truman

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

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

I'm not making art, I'm making sushi. - Masaharu Morimoto

Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence. - Joseph Krutch

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

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing. - Marcus Aurelius

Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing. - Robert Benchley

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art. - Susan Sontag

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'm a guy who can't function well in life, but I can in art. - Woody Allen

Tact is the art of convincing people that they know more than you do. - Raymond Mortimer

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

If thou art a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf. - Thomas Fuller

The great art of life is sensation; to feel that we exist, even in pain. - Lord Byron

All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography. - Frederico Fellini

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

Italy is the home of art and swindling; home of religion and moral rottenness. - Mark Twain

The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you. - Oscar Wilde

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

Diplomacy is the art of saying, "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock. - Will Rogers

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

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. - Scott Adams

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

The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions which have been hidden by the answers. - James Baldwin

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature but beautiful old people are works of art. - Unknown

The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient, whilst Mother Nature takes care of the cure. - Voltaire

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. - Aristotle

The guitar is a small orchestra. It is polyphonic. Every string is a different color, a different voice. - Andres Segovia

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

The biggest thing separating people from their artistic ambitions is not a lack of talent. It's the lack of a deadline. - Chris Baty

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

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