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

A great nation deserves great art. - Art Delage

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

Art is the signature of civilizations. - Beverly Sills

Art is anything you can get away with. - Marshall McLuhan

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

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

Smoking cures weight problems... eventually. - Steven Wright

Maintenance is as much art as it is science. - Unknown

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

Making sushi is an art, and experience is everything. - Nobu Matsuhisa

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing. - Marcus Aurelius

Poultry is for the cook what canvas is for the painter. - Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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

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

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination. - Voltaire

There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome. - Andre Gide

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

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known. - Oscar Wilde

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

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

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

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can. - Danny Kaye

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

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

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

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

Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. - Gunter Grass

The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity. - Andre Gide

Anyone who thinks the art of conversation is dead ought to tell a child to go to bed. - Robert Gallagher

The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions which have been hidden by the answers. - James Baldwin

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

Shopping: The fine art of acquiring things you don't need with money you don't have. - Unknown

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

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

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

'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

Toy Soldiers was my introduction to film. I certainly didn't think I was doing art by any stretch of the imagination. - Tim Robbins

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