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All art is quite useless. - Oscar Wilde

The secret of life is in art. - Oscar Wilde

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

Art is the signature of civilizations. - Beverly Sills

An art thief is a man who takes pictures. - George Carlin

Education is the art of making man ethical. - Georg Hegel

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

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

God is not interested in your art but, your heart. - Ifeanyi E. Onuoha

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

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

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

The art of government is the organization of idolatry. - George Bernard Shaw

A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art. - Paul Cezanne

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

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

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

Some of my best friends are illusions. Been sustaining me for years. - Sheila Ballantyne

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

The great art of life is sensation; to feel that we exist, even in pain. - Lord Byron

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

Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. - John Kenneth Galbraith

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

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

You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul. - George Bernard Shaw

Propaganda is the art of persuading others of what you don't believe yourself. - Abba Eban

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

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

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

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

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

Dreams or illusions, call them what you will, they lift us from the commonplace of life to better things. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. - John Kenneth Galbraith

It is our art that has an opportunity to leave a footprint in the sand. They don't wrap fish in our work. - Hugh N Jacobsen

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

Logic: the art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. - Ambrose Bierce

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