Straws

The secret of life is in art. - Oscar Wilde

The modern work of art is a symbol. - Herbert Read

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

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

An art thief is a man who takes pictures. - George Carlin

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

What is this, an audience or an oil painting? - Milton Berle

Truth is simple, requiring neither study nor art. - Ammian

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery. - Mark Van Doren

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

Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory. - Oscar Wilde

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

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls. - Pablo Picasso

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

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

A painting is never finished — it simply stops in interesting places. - Paul Gardner

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

Anyone who says you can't see a thought simply doesn't know art. - Wynetka Ann Reynolds

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

We have art so that we do not die of reality. Reality is too much with us. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. - John Kenneth Galbraith

Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work. - Seth Godin

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

I love contemporary art, although I wouldn't want a pickled shark in my house. - Bruno Tonioli

Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. - Gunter Grass

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

Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it. - Dwight D Eisenhower

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

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

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

It's tangible, it's solid, it's beautiful. It's artistic, from my standpoint, and I just love real estate. - Donald Trump

Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen. - Pablo Picasso

When nature is my inspiration and subject, I am witness to an extraordinary range of color and every imaginable atmospheric condition. - Karen Casey

Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor. - Andre Gide

The physician should look upon the patient as a besieged city and try to rescue him with every means that art and science place at his command. - Alexander of Tralles

The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience. - James R Lowell