Ostrich Imprint

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

Follow the grain in your own wood. - Howard Thurman

The painting has a life of its own. - Jackson Pollock

History develops, art stands still. - E.M. Forster

Art is the signature of civilizations. - Beverly Sills

The artist in me cries out for design. - Robert Frost

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

An art thief is a man who takes pictures. - George Carlin

What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art. - Augustus Saint-Gaudens

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

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

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

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

Love the art in yourself, not yourself in the art. - Constantin Stanislavski

Magic: An art of converting superstition into coin - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Politics is the art of controlling your environment. - Hunter S. Thompson

Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist. - Franz Liszt

Making sushi is an art, and experience is everything. - Nobu Matsuhisa

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

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

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art. - Susan Sontag

Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory. - Oscar Wilde

Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art. - Claude Debussy

Life doesn't imitate art; it imitates bad television. - Woody Allen

Painting is stronger than me, it makes me do its bidding. - Pablo Picasso

Art is the demonstration that the ordinary is extraordinary. - Amedee Ozenfant

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

In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport. - Julia Child

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

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

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

There's no need for a piece of sculpture in a home that has a cat. - Wesley Bates

The role of the artist today is to defend feeling against the machine. - Marty Rubin

Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature? - Charles Baudelaire

The art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on. - Henry H Ellis

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

Life beats down and crushes the soul, but art reminds you that you have one. - Stella Adler

To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine. - Henry Ward Beecher

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

I love contemporary art, although I wouldn't want a pickled shark in my house. - Bruno Tonioli

It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art. - Oscar Wilde

As the sculptor devotes himself to wood and stone, I would devote myself to my soul. - Toyohiko Kagawa

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

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

Shopping: The fine art of acquiring things you don't need with money you don't have. - Unknown

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 art of art, the glory of expression, and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity. - Walt Whitman

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece. - Ludwig Erhard

Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself. - Bertrand Russell

Art is a human activity having for its purpose the transmission to others of the highest and best feelings. - Leo Tolstoy

What's the earth with all its art, verse, music, worth -
Compared with love, found, gained, and kept? - Robert Browning

Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message. - Malcolm Muggeridge

Outcomes rarely turn on grand gestures or the art of the deal, but on whether you've sent someone a thank-you note. - Bernie Brillstein

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

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

For me, the drive is storytelling. To be a part of an art that tells a story and to be a catalyst, a color in that, is very exciting. - Alden Ehrenreich

Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor. - Andre Gide

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

If it's flipping hamburgers at McDonald's, be the best hamburger flipper in the world. Whatever it is you do you have to master your craft. - Snoop Dogg

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