Trouser Iron

Art is the most beautiful of lies. - Claude Debussy

Politics is the art of the possible. - Otto von Bismarck

Tea is a religion of the art of life. - Okakura Kakuzo

Art is the signature of civilizations. - Beverly Sills

Our humor turns our anger into a fine art. - Mary Kay Blakely

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

Art is either a plagiarist or a revolutionist. - Paul Gauguin

I teach the art of turning anguish into delight. - Georges Bataille

Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence. - Joseph Krutch

Truth is simple, requiring neither study nor art. - Ammian

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery. - Mark Van Doren

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

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth. - Ludwig Borne

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

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

Advertising is the greatest art form of the twentieth century. - Marshall McLuhan

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

Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between. - David Letterman

A really well made buttonhole is the only link between art and nature. - Oscar Wilde

The fine art of preparing sushi is something that you watch and learn. - Nobu Matsuhisa

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

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

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

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

Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on. - Robert Frost

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. - Scott Adams

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. - George Bernard Shaw

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

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

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

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

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

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached. - Simone Weil

Confidence, like art, never comes from having all the answers; it comes from being open to all the questions. - Earl Gray Stevens

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

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

Art owes its origin to nature. This beautiful creation supplied the first model, while the original teacher was that divine intelligence. - Giorgio Vasari

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival. - C S Lewis