Tree Tattoo

Life is brief, art is long. - Hippocrates

The secret of life is in art. - Oscar Wilde

What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art. - Augustus Saint-Gaudens

Inflation: everyone's illusion of wealth - Unknown

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

The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit. - Moliere

The art of a people is a true mirror to their minds. - Jawaharlal Nehru

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

Art is making something out of nothing and selling it. - Frank Zappa

What a strange illusion to suppose that beauty is goodness. - Leo Tolstoy

I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree. - Joyce Kilmer

I took a walk in the woods and came out taller than the trees. - Henry David Thoreau

The new job of art is to sit on the wall and get more expensive. - Robert Hughes

It is a symbol of Irish art. The cracked looking-glass of a servant. - James Joyce

If a tree falls in the forest and no one hears, does it make a sound? - Unknown

If thou art a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf. - Thomas Fuller

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

Never say never because limits, like fears, are often just an illusion. - Michael Jordan

The art challenges the technology, and the technology inspires the art. - John Lasseter

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

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

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

Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid. - Walter Winchell

Like the cosmetics industry, the securities business is engaged in selling illusion. - Paul Samuelson

Trees are not known by their leaves, nor even by their blossoms, but by their fruits. - Eleanor of Aquitaine

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

Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them. - Bill Vaughan

The stars are like the trees in the forest, alive and breathing. And they're watching me. - Haruki Murakami

The art of art, the glory of expression, and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity. - Walt Whitman

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

What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet. - Woody Allen

Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself. - Bertrand Russell

To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way. - E M Forster

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. - John Muir

He that climbs the tall tree has won the right to the fruit; he that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit. - Walter Scott

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing. - Abraham Lincoln

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

As the poet said, "Only God can make a tree" - probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on. - Woody Allen

I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery - air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, 'This is what it is to be happy.' - Sylvia Plath

Humility is becoming a lost art, but it's not difficult to practice. It means that you realize that others have been involved in your success. - Harvey Mackay