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Life is brief, art is long. - Hippocrates

Art is the signature of civilizations. - Beverly Sills

The human body is the best work of art. - Jess C. Scott

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

The true art of memory is the art of attention. - Samuel Johnson

The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity. - Douglas Horton

Logic is neither science nor an art, but a dodge. - Benjamin Jowett

An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one. - Charles Horton Cooley

A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle. - James Keller

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

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

The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery. - Francis Bacon

Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough. - Groucho Marx

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art. - Susan Sontag

Mathematical genius and artistic genius touch one another. - Gosta Mittag-Leffler

Dancing is like bank robbery - it takes split second timing. - Twyla Tharp

Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible sun within us. - Sir Thomas Brown

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

Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. - Aristotle

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

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

All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography. - Frederico Fellini

Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises. - Samuel Butler

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

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. - Pablo Picasso

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

You don't need a floodlight to bring light into the darkness - a single flame will do. - Clare Josa

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. - Oscar Wilde

Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it. - Laurence J Peter

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

What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying. - Oscar Wilde

Writing is very much a playground - an artistic playground. It's the most fun thing I do. - Shania Twain

It's amazing what you can do with an E in A-Level art, a twisted imagination and a chainsaw. - Damien Hirst

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. - Aristotle

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

Because I'm an artist, I can't ever consider myself a nihilist, so I suppose I'm optimistic. - Marilyn Manson

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

I went to the museum where they had all the heads and arms from the statues that are in all the other museums. - Steven Wright

Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting, or living itself, which is the greatest art of all. - Ray Bradbury

Go figure a crazy, mixed-up country where ballet outsells boxing. I wouldn't be surprised if their wrestling was on the level. - Bob Hope