Straws

The secret of life is in art. - Oscar Wilde

Politics is the art of the possible. - Otto von Bismarck

Tea is a religion of the art of life. - Okakura Kakuzo

Any idealism is a proper subject for art. - Lafcadio Hearn

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

Art is either a plagiarist or a revolutionist. - Paul Gauguin

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

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

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

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

The new job of art is to sit on the wall and get more expensive. - Robert Hughes

Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between. - David Letterman

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul. - Joseph Addison

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them. - Bernard M Baruch

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

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

Writing is very much a playground - an artistic playground. It's the most fun thing I do. - Shania Twain

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

The art of art, the glory of expression, and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity. - Walt Whitman

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad. - Salvador Dali

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

Bogart could have been color blind. He got to know a man before he decided if he liked him or not. - Sammy Davis, Jr.

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

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

Outcomes rarely turn on grand gestures or the art of the deal, but on whether you've sent someone a thank-you note. - Bernie Brillstein

Mere colour, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways. - Oscar Wilde

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy. - Groucho Marx

Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. - Donald Trump

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

With so much to be aware of, awareness bracelets have reverted to signifying nothing more than color itself. Idealism has devolved into fashion. - Timothy Noah