Nerve Twitch

All art is quite useless. - Oscar Wilde

Photographing a cake can be art. - Irving Penn

Dust thou art, to dust returnest. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Art is the most beautiful of lies. - Claude Debussy

The modern work of art is a symbol. - Herbert Read

Illusion is the first of all pleasures. - Oscar Wilde

The engineering is secondary to the vision. - Cynthia Ozick

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

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

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

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

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

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

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. - Oscar Wilde

The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure. - Dale Carnegie

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

The Iranians and Persians are excellent at the art of negotiation. - Donald Trump

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

Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare. - Japanese Proverb

The most sudden and visible good effects were from oranges and lemons. - James Lind

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

Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly. - Morticia Addams

It is through art, and through art only, that we can realize our perfection. - Oscar Wilde

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world. - Arthur Schopenhauer

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

Free will is an illusion. People always choose the perceived path of greatest pleasure. - Scott Adams

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature but beautiful old people are works of art. - Unknown

The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient, whilst Mother Nature takes care of the cure. - Voltaire

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

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

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

'Tis not always in a physician's power to cure the sick; at times the disease is stronger than trained art. - Ovid

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

We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves. - Buddha

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

Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor. - Andre Gide

Love easily confuses us because it is always in flux between illusion and substance, between memory and wish, between contentment and need. - Tom Robbins

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

Good leaders must communicate vision clearly, creatively and continually. However, the vision doesn't come alive until the leader models it. - John C Maxwell