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 |