Mona Lisa - Behind The Scenes

Dust thou art, to dust returnest. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

A great nation deserves great art. - Art Delage

Art is anything you can get away with. - Marshall McLuhan

Dance can give the inarticulate a voice. - Pamela Brown

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

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

What is this, an audience or an oil painting? - Milton Berle

A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing. - Clive James

Truth is simple, requiring neither study nor art. - Ammian

The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook. - William James

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

Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday. - Don Marquis

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

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

We need a leader that wrote "The Art of the Deal". - Donald Trump

There are short-cuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them. - Vicki Baum

The new job of art is to sit on the wall and get more expensive. - Robert Hughes

Stand-up comedy is an art form and it dies unless you expand it. - Sam Kinison

We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master. - Ernest Hemingway

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

Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it. - Robert Motherwell

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

Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. - John Kenneth Galbraith

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

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

Dance isn't something that can be explained in words; it has to be danced. - Paige Arden

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

I have a wonderful make-up crew. They're the same people restoring the Statue of Liberty. - Bob Hope

Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass; it's about learning to dance in the rain. - Vivian Greene

It's amazing what you can do with an E in A-Level art, a twisted imagination and a chainsaw. - Damien Hirst

The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic slice of truth, wisdom, is dying out. - Walter Benjamin

Boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music, no choreography, and the dancers hit each other. - Jack Handey

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

To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way. - E M Forster

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

As an experienced artist, I carry my work like a secret pregnancy. I am always aware of inner life and the need to protect it. - Julia Cameron

The birch-bark canoe of the savage seems to me one of the most beautiful and perfect things of the kind constructed by human art. - William C. Bryant

Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. - Donald Trump