Fly Art

If that's art, I'm a Hottentot! - Harry S Truman

The common people swarm like summer flies. - William Shakespeare

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

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

To watch us dance is to hear our hearts speak. - Indian Proverb

Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind. - Nathaniel Hawthorne

Ballet is good, because it makes you stand up tall. - Carine Roitfeld

Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough. - Groucho Marx

Dancing can reveal all the mystery that music conceals. - Charles Baudelaire

Timing has a lot to do with the outcome of a rain dance. - Unknown

A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art. - Paul Cezanne

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

I'm due at the ballet. They're doin' Swoon Lake. - Archie Bunker

Dancing is like bank robbery - it takes split second timing. - Twyla Tharp

Management is a practice where art, science, and craft meet. - Henry Mintzberg

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

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul. - Joseph Addison

Tact is the art of convincing people that they know more than you do. - Raymond Mortimer

The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes. - Tony Blair

Perspective is to painting what the bridle is to the horse, the rudder to a ship. - Leonardo da Vinci

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. - Pablo Picasso

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

Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. - Gunter Grass

The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity. - Andre Gide

Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid. - Walter Winchell

Anyone who thinks the art of conversation is dead ought to tell a child to go to bed. - Robert Gallagher

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul and paints his own nature into his pictures. - Henry Ward Beecher

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

Art is the right hand of nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men. - Friedrich Schiller

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

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. - Aristotle

'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.' - W H Auden

Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings. - Vicki Baum

Work like you don't need the money, dance like no one is watching, and love like you've never been hurt. - Mark Twain

The minute there's a map, there is no art. Paint by numbers is not art. Paint by numbers is a mechanical activity. - Seth Godin

Go figure a crazy, mixed-up country where ballet outsells boxing. I wouldn't be surprised if their wrestling was on the level. - Bob Hope

An intellectual is a man who says a simple thing in a difficult way; an artist is a man who says a difficult thing in a simple way. - Charles Bukowski

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

Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of words. - Franz Liszt