Art School Graduate

All art is quite useless. - Oscar Wilde

Life is brief, art is long. - Hippocrates

Photographing a cake can be art. - Irving Penn

Art is a house that tries to be haunted. - Emily Dickinson

Dance can give the inarticulate a voice. - Pamela Brown

It costs nothing to encourage an artist. - Kevin Smith

All great art comes from a sense of outrage. - Glenn Close

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

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

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

An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one. - Charles Horton Cooley

The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook. - William James

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

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

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul. - Joseph Addison

We're fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance. - Japanese Proverb

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls. - Pablo Picasso

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

I am a genre lover - everything from spaghetti western to samurai movies. - Quentin Tarantino

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

Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music. - William Stafford

A piece of spaghetti or a military unit can only be led from the front end. - George S Patton

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. - Pablo Picasso

The man who is ostentatious of his modesty is twin to the statue that wears a fig-leaf. - Mark Twain

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. - Oscar Wilde

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

I like spaghetti bolognese, I like baked beans on toast. I hate French food. I hate fancy food. - Simon Cowell

Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass; it's about learning to dance in the rain. - Vivian Greene

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad. - Salvador Dali

I like to put on a wig or a fake mustache and do something silly with friends, do a little dance. - Tom Lenk

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

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

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

The biggest thing separating people from their artistic ambitions is not a lack of talent. It's the lack of a deadline. - Chris Baty

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy. - Groucho Marx

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

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

My wife was a make-up artist, and she's a total product junkie. Our bathroom is packed full of lotions and potions so I end up trying them out. - Robert Carlyle