Modern Santa Claus
Thomas Nast Santa drawings published in 1863 and 1881
Thomas Nast's earliest version of Santa Claus was published in the January 3, 1863 issue of Harper's Weekly, but it doesn't resemble the modern Santa as much as his later 1881 drawing (below)
Thomas Nast's picture of Santa Claus in Harper's Weekly January 1, 1881 issue became the visual prototype of the Santa Claus we know and love today.
QuotaBillsThe secret of life is in art. - Oscar Wilde
A great nation deserves great art. - Art Delage
Art is the signature of civilizations. - Beverly Sills
All great art comes from a sense of outrage. - Glenn Close
Maintenance is as much art as it is science. - Unknown
What is this, an audience or an oil painting? - Milton Berle
The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook. - William James
Love the art in yourself, not yourself in the art. - Constantin Stanislavski
Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace. - Oscar Wilde
Politics is the art of controlling your environment. - Hunter S. Thompson
The art of being a slave is to rule one's master. - Diogenes
Art is not what you see, but what you make others see. - Degas
Art is making something out of nothing and selling it. - Frank Zappa
The art of communication is the language of leadership. - James Humes
A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art. - Paul Cezanne
Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art. - Susan Sontag
Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity. - Yoko Ono
We need a leader that wrote "The Art of the Deal". - Donald Trump
I'm going to the North Pole to help out Santa this year. - Jimmy Fallon
The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting. - Sun Tzu
The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls. - Pablo Picasso
Oratory is the art of making a loud noise seem like a deep thought. - American Proverb
The art of conversation is the art of hearing as well as of being heard. - William Hazlitt
There are moments when Art almost attains to the dignity of manual labor. - Oscar Wilde
Nothing's as mean as giving a little child something useful for Christmas. - Kin Hubbard
Humour is a rubber sword - it allows you to make a point without drawing blood. - Mary Hirsch
Mail your packages early, so the Post Office can lose them in time for Christmas. - Johnny Carson
The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease. - Voltaire
Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid. - Walter Winchell
Prophecy: The art and practice of selling one's credibility for future delivery. - Ambrose Bierce
If 'ifs and buts' were 'candy and nuts', we'd have Christmas every day. - Unknown
A half finished shawl left on the coffee table isn't a mess; it's an object of art. - Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
It's not your painting anymore. It stopped being your painting the moment that you finished it. - Jeff Melvoin
Might make a real good Christmas present for the uninformed. The book is called 'Taking America Back.' - Paul Harvey
'Tis not always in a physician's power to cure the sick; at times the disease is stronger than trained art. - Ovid
The minute there's a map, there is no art. Paint by numbers is not art. Paint by numbers is a mechanical activity. - Seth Godin
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
Logic: the art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. - Ambrose Bierce
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
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