Man At Work

My trade and my art is living. - Michel De Montaigne

Photographing a cake can be art. - Irving Penn

Art is the most beautiful of lies. - Claude Debussy

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

Art is the signature of civilizations. - Beverly Sills

Any idealism is a proper subject for art. - Lafcadio Hearn

Life is the art of drawing without an eraser. - John Gardner

What is this, an audience or an oil painting? - Milton Berle

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 'Earth' without art is just 'eh'. - Unknown

No one should have to dance backwards all their lives. - Jill Ruckelshaus

Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing. - Robert Benchley

Dancing is like bank robbery - it takes split second timing. - Twyla Tharp

Management is a practice where art, science, and craft meet. - Henry Mintzberg

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

The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection. - Mechelangelo di Lodovico

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

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

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

Dance isn't something that can be explained in words; it has to be danced. - Paige Arden

Dance till the stars come down from the rafters! Dance, Dance, Dance till you drop! - W H Auden

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

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

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

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

Never pay attention to what critics say. Remember, a statue has never been set up in honor of a critic. - Jean Sibelius

'Tis not always in a physician's power to cure the sick; at times the disease is stronger than trained art. - Ovid

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

If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him. - John F Kennedy

We all know that art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. - Pablo Picasso

Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting, or living itself, which is the greatest art of all. - Ray Bradbury

Drink and dance and laugh and lie,
Love, the reeling midnight through,
For tomorrow we shall die!
(But, alas, we never do.) - Dorothy Parker

People ask about art and commercialism. I think that if someone tries to sell their work at a high price, that is the wrong way of doing it. - Yayoi Kusama

The physician should look upon the patient as a besieged city and try to rescue him with every means that art and science place at his command. - Alexander of Tralles

Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of words. - Franz Liszt