The Truth

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

One does not marry art. One ravishes it. - Edgar Degas

Call on God, but row away from the rocks. - Indian Proverb

The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook. - William James

Love the art in yourself, not yourself in the art. - Constantin Stanislavski

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. - Pablo Picasso

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

Art in nature is rhythmic and has a horror of constraint. - Robert Delaunay

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

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

Tact is the art of convincing people that they know more than you do. - Raymond Mortimer

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

Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart go together. - John Ruskin

There are moments when Art almost attains to the dignity of manual labor. - Oscar Wilde

If it weren't for the rocks in its bed, the stream would have no song. - Carl Perkins

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

Grantartica: The cold, isolated place where art companies dwell without funding - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. - William Congreve

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

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

When Jack Benny has a party, you not only bring your own scotch, you bring your own rocks. - George Burns

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

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality. - Irish Murdoch

I have discovered the art of fooling diplomats. I speak the truth, and they never believe me. - Camillo Di Cavour

The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic slice of truth, wisdom, is dying out. - Walter Benjamin

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

The illusion that the times that were are better than those that are has probably pervaded all ages. - Horace Greeley

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

My love life is terrible. The last time I was inside a woman was when I visited the Statue of Liberty. - Woody Allen

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. - Albert Einstein

I feel strongly that the visual arts are of vast importance. Of course I could be prejudiced. I am a visual art. - Kermit The Frog

'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

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living. - Frederic Amiel

The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind. - Paracelsus

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 is the window to man's soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see the man within. - Claudia Johnson