Crocodile Floor

The secret of life is in art. - Oscar Wilde

Illusion is the first of all pleasures. - Oscar Wilde

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

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

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting. - Jackson Pollock

The 'Earth' without art is just 'eh'. - Unknown

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

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

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

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

Stand-up comedy is an art form and it dies unless you expand it. - Sam Kinison

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

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. - Thomas Merton

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

The great art of life is sensation; to feel that we exist, even in pain. - Lord Byron

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

Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on. - Robert Frost

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

A gun is not a weapon, it’s a tool, like a hammer or a screwdriver or an alligator. - Homer Simpson

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

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

Psychiatry is the art of teaching people how to stand on their own two feet while reclining on couches. - Sigmund Freud

Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted in spite of your changing moods. - C S Lewis

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

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

What's the earth with all its art, verse, music, worth -
Compared with love, found, gained, and kept? - Robert Browning

Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right. - Aldous Huxley

When it began, cubism was a sort of analysis, which was no more painting than the description of physical phenomena was physics. - Juan Gris

The birch-bark canoe of the savage seems to me one of the most beautiful and perfect things of the kind constructed by human art. - William C. Bryant

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other. - Voltaire

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

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

People ask about art and commercialism. I think that if someone tries to sell their work at a high price, that is the wrong way of doing it. - Yayoi Kusama

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

Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of words. - Franz Liszt