Tartan Treasures

All art is quite useless. - Oscar Wilde

Art is a revolt against fate. - Andre Malraux

The secret of life is in art. - Oscar Wilde

Dust thou art, to dust returnest. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

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

Vision is the art of seeing things invisible. - Jonathan Swift

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

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

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

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting. - Sun Tzu

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

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

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

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

In the haunted house of life, art is the only stair that doesn't creak. - Tom Robbins

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

You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul. - George Bernard Shaw

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

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

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease. - Voltaire

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

Anyone who thinks the art of conversation is dead ought to tell a child to go to bed. - Robert Gallagher

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. - Albert Einstein

A half finished shawl left on the coffee table isn't a mess; it's an object of art. - Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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

I'm proud of my Irish heritage and culture and this show will feature a lot of Irish dancing. - Michael Flatley

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

Leadership: The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. - Dwight D Eisenhower

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

Boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music, no choreography, and the dancers hit each other. - Jack Handey

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

Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings. - Vicki Baum

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

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

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

We all know that art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. - Pablo Picasso

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