Sawfish Sword

Every artist was first an amateur. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Art is the signature of civilizations. - Beverly Sills

One does not marry art. One ravishes it. - Edgar Degas

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

What an artist the world is losing in me. - Nero

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

I'm not making art, I'm making sushi. - Masaharu Morimoto

The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity. - Douglas Horton

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

The art of a people is a true mirror to their minds. - Jawaharlal Nehru

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

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

Anyone who says you can't see a thought simply doesn't know art. - Wynetka Ann Reynolds

The art of conversation is the art of hearing as well as of being heard. - William Hazlitt

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

Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing. - Ralph Richardson

I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough? - Vincent van Gogh

Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises. - Samuel Butler

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can inspire. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Grantartica: The cold, isolated place where art companies dwell without funding - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Humour is a rubber sword - it allows you to make a point without drawing blood. - Mary Hirsch

The practice of art isn't to make a living. It's to make your soul grow. - Kurt Vonnegut

Dancing is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made. - Ted Shawn

The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them. - Bernard M Baruch

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease. - Voltaire

Copy nature and you infringe on the work of our Lord. Interpret nature and you are an artist. - Jacques Lipchitz

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

The mission of the artist in an over-technologized society, is to call the old magic back to life. - Tom Robbins

Because I'm an artist, I can't ever consider myself a nihilist, so I suppose I'm optimistic. - Marilyn Manson

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. - Albert Einstein

Build. Destroy. Rebuild. I've mastered the art of bouncing back. Now to master the art of not having to. - Unknown

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

Preaching is not the art of making a sermon and delivering it. Preaching is the art of making a preacher and delivering him. - Bishop Quayle

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

We discern across the centuries a commanding and versatile intelligence, wielding with equal force the sword of war and of justice. - Winston Churchill

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

The only happy artist is a dead artist, because only then you can't change. After I die, I'll probably come back as a paintbrush. - Sylvester Stallone

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies. - Napoleon Bonaparte

I adore art. When I am alone with my notes, my heart pounds and the tears stream from my eyes, and my emotion and my joys are too much to bear. - Guiseppe Verdi