Garage Door Art

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

Art is the signature of civilizations. - Beverly Sills

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

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

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so. - Douglas Adams

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

A strong imagination begetteth opportunity. - Michel de Montaigne

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

Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one. - Terry Pratchett

Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday. - Don Marquis

Life doesn't imitate art; it imitates bad television. - Woody Allen

The art of mothering is to teach the art of living to children. - Elaine Heffner

Illusion is the dust the devil throws in the eyes of the foolish. - Minna Antrim

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

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

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination. - Voltaire

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

Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it. - Robert Motherwell

Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature? - Charles Baudelaire

Life beats down and crushes the soul, but art reminds you that you have one. - Stella Adler

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions. - Albert Einstein

Please don't come to my garage sale if you've ever let me borrow something. - Mike Spears

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

Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experience treacherous, judgment difficult. - Hypocrites

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

Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination. - Ernest Hemingway

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

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece. - Ludwig Erhard

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached. - Simone Weil

'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.' - W H Auden

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

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

Fatalism is the creed of a will that is dying to its possibilities and seeks to drag the imagination with it. - Ravi Zacharias

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

One supreme fact which I have discovered is that it is not willpower but imagination that creates. Imagination creates reality. - Richard Wagner

The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are. - Samuel Johnson

I adore art. When I am alone with my notes, my heart pounds and the tears stream from my eyes, and my emotion and my joys are too much to bear. - Guiseppe Verdi