QuotaBillsEvery artist was first an amateur. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Art is the most beautiful of lies. - Claude Debussy
Politics is the art of the possible. - Otto von Bismarck
Tea is a religion of the art of life. - Okakura Kakuzo
The human body is the best work of art. - Jess C. Scott
Art is a house that tries to be haunted. - Emily Dickinson
Our humor turns our anger into a fine art. - Mary Kay Blakely
Write injuries in sand, kindness in marble. - French Proverb
Vision is the art of seeing things invisible. - Jonathan Swift
Life is the art of drawing without an eraser. - John Gardner
Ampersand: Sand you won't find at a beach - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
Art is either a plagiarist or a revolutionist. - Paul Gauguin
I teach the art of turning anguish into delight. - Georges Bataille
Good work rarely sells. I believe this of any art. - Arthur W Pinero
Making sushi is an art, and experience is everything. - Nobu Matsuhisa
Art is making something out of nothing and selling it. - Frank Zappa
The art of communication is the language of leadership. - James Humes
Botany: The art of insulting flowers in Greek and Latin. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
Mathematical genius and artistic genius touch one another. - Gosta Mittag-Leffler
We need a leader that wrote "The Art of the Deal". - Donald Trump
Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between. - David Letterman
Stand-up comedy is an art form and it dies unless you expand it. - Sam Kinison
I don't own a camera, so I travel with a police sketch artist. - George Carlin
The Iranians and Persians are excellent at the art of negotiation. - Donald Trump
We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master. - Ernest Hemingway
Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. - Thomas Merton
A really well made buttonhole is the only link between art and nature. - Oscar Wilde
The fine art of preparing sushi is something that you watch and learn. - Nobu Matsuhisa
The role of the artist today is to defend feeling against the machine. - Marty Rubin
To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy. - Will Durant
The art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on. - Henry H Ellis
The great art of life is sensation; to feel that we exist, even in pain. - Lord Byron
All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography. - Frederico Fellini
If thou art a master, sometimes be blind; if a servant, sometimes be deaf. - Thomas Fuller
Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. - John Kenneth Galbraith
The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. - Emile Zola
An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have. - Andy Warhol
The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you. - Oscar Wilde
You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul. - George Bernard Shaw
Dancing is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made. - Ted Shawn
Jealousy is the art of counting someone else's blessings instead of your own. - Unknown
The man who is ostentatious of his modesty is twin to the statue that wears a fig-leaf. - Mark Twain
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul and paints his own nature into his pictures. - Henry Ward Beecher
The most potent and sacred command which can be laid upon any artist is the command: wait. - Iris Murdoch
Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better. - Andre Gide
Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. - Oscar Wilde
Writing is very much a playground - an artistic playground. It's the most fun thing I do. - Shania Twain
No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time. It is just that the others are behind the time. - Martha Graham
The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it. - Niccolo Machiavelli
The art of art, the glory of expression, and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity. - Walt Whitman
Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad. - Salvador Dali
A blind man can make art if what is in his mind can be passed to another mind in some tangible form. - Sol LeWitt
I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast. - Viktor Frankl
Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself. - Bertrand Russell
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. - John Kenneth Galbraith
Confidence, like art, never comes from having all the answers; it comes from being open to all the questions. - Earl Gray Stevens
I went to the museum where they had all the heads and arms from the statues that are in all the other museums. - Steven Wright
Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and acitivty of man's nature. - Robert South
'Tis not always in a physician's power to cure the sick; at times the disease is stronger than trained art. - Ovid
A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist. - R. Buckminster Fuller
To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living. - Frederic Amiel
Toy Soldiers was my introduction to film. I certainly didn't think I was doing art by any stretch of the imagination. - Tim Robbins
It's tangible, it's solid, it's beautiful. It's artistic, from my standpoint, and I just love real estate. - Donald Trump
Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor. - Andre Gide
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