All Bottled Up

Photographing a cake can be art. - Irving Penn

A great nation deserves great art. - Art Delage

Art is the most beautiful of lies. - Claude Debussy

Art is anything you can get away with. - Marshall McLuhan

Education is the art of making man ethical. - Georg Hegel

Comedy is like catching lightning in a bottle. - Goldie Hawn

Once there was a tree, and she loved a little boy. - Shel Silverstein

Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace. - Oscar Wilde

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

Art is not what you see, but what you make others see. - Degas

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth. - Ludwig Borne

What a strange illusion to suppose that beauty is goodness. - Leo Tolstoy

Art is the demonstration that the ordinary is extraordinary. - Amedee Ozenfant

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

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

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

Learn not to talk to me. You shake the tree, a leopard's going to fall out. - Kobe Bryant

Jealousy is the art of counting someone else's blessings instead of your own. - Unknown

I've had a lot of luck. If I didn't I'd be washing bottles in Russia. - Marat Safin

Propaganda is the art of persuading others of what you don't believe yourself. - Abba Eban

It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art. - Oscar Wilde

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge. - Daniel J. Boorstin

I'll bring ya a bottle of champagne. Maybe I'll even bring home a whole maggot. - Archie Bunker

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

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree. - Martin Luther

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

The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a family all wrapped up in each other. - Bill Vaughan

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

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

It is our art that has an opportunity to leave a footprint in the sand. They don't wrap fish in our work. - Hugh N Jacobsen

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

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does. - George Bernard Shaw

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing. - Abraham Lincoln

You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet. - Hal Borland

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

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

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