Strange Sculptures

The secret of life is in art. - Oscar Wilde

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

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

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

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

A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing. - Clive James

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home. - Twyla Tharp

Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing. - Robert Benchley

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

One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art. - Oscar Wilde

I'm due at the ballet. They're doin' Swoon Lake. - Archie Bunker

Before they invented drawing boards, what did they go back to? - George Carlin

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

A painting is never finished — it simply stops in interesting places. - Paul Gardner

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

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

In the haunted house of life, art is the only stair that doesn't creak. - Tom Robbins

Life beats down and crushes the soul, but art reminds you that you have one. - Stella Adler

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

We dance in a circle and suppose, while the secret sits in the middle and knows. - Robert Frost

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

Oh, if it be to choose and call thee mine, love, thou art every day my Valentine! - Thomas Hood

I love contemporary art, although I wouldn't want a pickled shark in my house. - Bruno Tonioli

The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them. - Bernard M Baruch

Dance till the stars come down from the rafters! Dance, Dance, Dance till you drop! - W H Auden

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The biggest thing separating people from their artistic ambitions is not a lack of talent. It's the lack of a deadline. - Chris Baty

We all know that art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. - Pablo Picasso

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

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

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

If it's flipping hamburgers at McDonald's, be the best hamburger flipper in the world. Whatever it is you do you have to master your craft. - Snoop Dogg