Statue of Libertea

Art is a revolt against fate. - Andre Malraux

Art is the most beautiful of lies. - Claude Debussy

Liberty, once lost, is lost forever. - John Adams

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

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

Our humor turns our anger into a fine art. - Mary Kay Blakely

We have art to save ourselves from the truth. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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

Life is the art of drawing without an eraser. - John Gardner

All government, of course, is against liberty. - H L Mencken

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

But indeed I would rather have nothing but tea. - Jane Austen

I teach the art of turning anguish into delight. - Georges Bataille

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

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

The art of love is largely the art of persistence. - Albert Ellis

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

Making sushi is an art, and experience is everything. - Nobu Matsuhisa

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

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

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

He who does not travel does not know the value of men. - Moorish Proverb

Traffic signals in New York are just rough guidelines. - David Letterman

The art of communication is the language of leadership. - James Humes

Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art. - F Scott Fitzgerald

Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity. - Yoko Ono

Tea is the magic key to the vault where my brain is kept. - Frances Hardinge

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

Bills travel through the mail at twice the speed of checks. - Steven Wright

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it. - George Bernard Shaw

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

Liberty: One of Imagination's most previous possessions. - Ambrose Bierce

Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination. - Roy L. Goodman

The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection. - Mechelangelo di Lodovico

In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport. - Julia Child

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

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

Surely a pretty woman never looks prettier than when making tea. - Mary E. Braddon

I don't own a camera, so I travel with a police sketch artist. - George Carlin

If anybody starts using me as scenery, I'll return to New York. - Grace Kelly

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

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

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

I know the guy who writes all those bumper stickers. He hates New York. - Steven Wright

To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy. - Will Durant

The art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on. - Henry H Ellis

The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes. - Tony Blair

The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much. - William Hazlitt

There are moments when Art almost attains to the dignity of manual labor. - Oscar Wilde

My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody. - Wilkie Collins

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

I liked being a teenager, but I would not go back for all the tea in China. - Rob Lowe

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

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

To be safe at the expense of the liberty of other people is a difficult equation. - Madeleine Albright

On a New York subway you get fined for spitting, but you can throw up for nothing. - Lewis Grizzard

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

There are two kind of air travel in the United States, first class and third world. - Bobby Slayton

I should rather men ask why no statue has been erected in my honour, than why one has. - Marcus Porcius Cato

They laughed at Robert Fulton but without him, New York wouldn't have a fish market. - Archie Bunker

How to stop time: kiss.
How to travel in time: read.
How to escape time: music. - Unknown

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

Why endeavor to straighten the road of life? The faster we travel, the less there is to see. - Helen Hayes

Shopping: The fine art of acquiring things you don't need with money you don't have. - Unknown

A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left. - Alexander Pope

Some people will tell you there is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home. - Dagobert D. Runes

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

I must study politics and war that my sons may have the liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. - John Adams

My love life is terrible. The last time I was inside a woman was when I visited the Statue of Liberty. - Woody Allen

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

Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to my conscience, above all liberties. - John Milton

Art is a human activity having for its purpose the transmission to others of the highest and best feelings. - Leo Tolstoy

When I played ball, I didn't play for fun... It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out. - Ty Cobb

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

Confidence, like art, never comes from having all the answers; it comes from being open to all the questions. - Earl Gray Stevens

I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone. - H L Mencken

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

The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up. - Jay Leno

Travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living. - Miriam Beard

I'm the No. 1 developer in New York, I'm the biggest in Atlantic City, and maybe we'll keep it that way. - Donald Trump

Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. - Benjamin Franklin

Despite all our toil and progress, the art of medicine still falls somewhere between trout casting and spook writing. - Ben Hecht

To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company. - Andre Gide

Happiness is being content with what you have, living in freedom and liberty, having a good family life and good friends. - Divyanka Tripathi

We study the glory of God, and the honour and liberty of parliament, for which we fight, without seeking our own interests. - Oliver Cromwell

If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him. - John F Kennedy

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

The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind. - Paracelsus

The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land. - G K Chesterton

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

For me, the drive is storytelling. To be a part of an art that tells a story and to be a catalyst, a color in that, is very exciting. - Alden Ehrenreich

Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other. - Oscar Ameringer

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

The starting line of the New York Marathon is like a giant time bomb behind you about to go off. It is the most spectacular start in sport. - Bill Rodgers

When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable. - Clifton Fadiman

If we ever travel thousands of light years to a planet inhabited by intelligent life, let's just make patterns in their crops and leave. - Bill Murray

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival. - C S Lewis

In New York, everybody looks great and is well dressed, but seeing someone in Ohio wearing Marc Jacobs is like spotting an owl in Central Park. Rare. - Isabel Gillies