Sawfish Sword

Politics is the art of the possible. - Otto von Bismarck

If that's art, I'm a Hottentot! - Harry S Truman

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

Education is the art of making man ethical. - Georg Hegel

We have art to save ourselves from the truth. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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

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

Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life. - Oscar Wilde

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

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

To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature. - August Rodin

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery. - Mark Van Doren

A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art. - Paul Cezanne

One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art. - Oscar Wilde

Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between. - David Letterman

The Iranians and Persians are excellent at the art of negotiation. - Donald Trump

I'm a guy who can't function well in life, but I can in art. - Woody Allen

A really well made buttonhole is the only link between art and nature. - Oscar Wilde

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

The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes. - Tony Blair

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

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

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

Italy is the home of art and swindling; home of religion and moral rottenness. - Mark Twain

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

Jealousy is the art of counting someone else's blessings instead of your own. - Unknown

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

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

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

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature but beautiful old people are works of art. - Unknown

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

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

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

Writing is very much a playground - an artistic playground. It's the most fun thing I do. - Shania Twain

Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings. - Vicki Baum

That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward. - Ernest Hemingway

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

Logic: the art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. - Ambrose Bierce

In this year, King Aethelstan, Lord of Warriors, ring-giver to men... won eternal glory, in battle with sword edges, around Brunaburh. - Unknown

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