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The Lighter Side of Art
 

 

 

The Lighter Side of Art
 

All art is quite useless. So is a flower.

--Oscar Wilde

 

Dead artists always bring out an older, richer crowd.

--Elizabeth Shaw

 

They couldn't find the artist, so they hung the picture.

--Gerald F. Lieberman

 

Walking isn't a lost art -- how else can one get to the garage?

--unknown

 

Egotism is the art of seeing in yourself what others cannot see.              

--George V. Higgins

 

No skill or art is needed to grow old; the trick is to endure it.        

--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

 

People say conversation is a lost art; how often I have wished it were.       

--Edward R. Murrow

 

Botany is not a science; it is the art of insulting flowers in Greek and Latin.       

--Alphonse Karr

 

The art of fishing is sitting still for a long time until you don't catch anything.        

--unknown

 

The abstract artist who sees things he cannot paint, decides to paint things he cannot see.        

--unknown

 

Dancing is the art of getting your feet out of the way faster than your partner can step on them.   

--unknown

 

One of the greatest creations of the human mind is the art of reviewing books without having to read them.       

--G. C. Lichtenberg

 

Advertising is the fine art of making you think you have longed for something all your life that you never heard of before.              

--unknown

 

The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: The bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really does.    

--William Blake

 

If lions painted, there would be many more pictures of lions killing men than men killing lions.             

--unknown

 

If I didn't start painting, I would have raised chickens.

-- Grandma Moses

 

He's got a photographic mind. Too bad it never developed.

--Leopold Fechtner

 

Architecture is inhabited sculpture.        

--Constantin Brancusi

 

An actor is a sculptor who carves in snow.   

--Edwin Booth

 

The problem is not whether you can see the handwriting on the wall, but whether you can read it.

--unknown

- Frederick The Great
 
 
I love hats, especially when you have bad hair days.
- Chiara Ferragni
 
 
I made the Yankee hat more famous than a Yankee can.
- Jay-Z
 
 
I collect hats. That's what you do when you're bald.
- James Taylor
 
 
Her hat is a creation that will never go out of style; it will just look ridiculous year after year.
- Fred Allen
 
 
You can always tell a detective on TV. He never takes his hat off.
- Raymond Chandler
 
 
[Diplomats are] . . . babies in silk hats playing with dynamite.
- Alexander Woollcott
 
 
Foreign policy is really domestic policy with its hat on.
- Hubert H. Humphrey
 
 
A gentleman is any man who wouldn't hit a woman with his hat on.
- Fred Allen
 
 
I enjoy hats. And when one has filthy hair, that is a good accessory.
- Julia Roberts
 
 
[A metaphysician is] . . . a blind man in a dark room - looking for a black hat - which isn't there.
- Lord Bowen