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Life is brief, art is long. - Hippocrates

The secret of life is in art. - Oscar Wilde

The painting has a life of its own. - Jackson Pollock

History develops, art stands still. - E.M. Forster

Politics is the art of the possible. - Otto von Bismarck

Art is the signature of civilizations. - Beverly Sills

Either dance well or quit the ballroom. - Greek Proverb

It costs nothing to encourage an artist. - Kevin Smith

Dancing with her was like moving a piano. - Ring Lardner

What an artist the world is losing in me. - Nero

Our humor turns our anger into a fine art. - Mary Kay Blakely

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

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

We can choose to hate the rain or dance in it. - Joan Marques

The true art of memory is the art of attention. - Samuel Johnson

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God is not interested in your art but, your heart. - Ifeanyi E. Onuoha

Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace. - Oscar Wilde

The art of a people is a true mirror to their minds. - Jawaharlal Nehru

To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature. - August Rodin

Dance first. Think later. It's the natural order. - Samuel Beckett

The art of government is the organization of idolatry. - George Bernard Shaw

I would believe only in a God that knows how to dance. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art. - Susan Sontag

Art in nature is rhythmic and has a horror of constraint. - Robert Delaunay

Dance is a delicate balance between perfection and beauty. - Unknown

Art is the demonstration that the ordinary is extraordinary. - Amedee Ozenfant

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

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

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

The art of mothering is to teach the art of living to children. - Elaine Heffner

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

Illusion is the dust the devil throws in the eyes of the foolish. - Minna Antrim

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

It is a symbol of Irish art. The cracked looking-glass of a servant. - James Joyce

I'm a guy who can't function well in life, but I can in art. - Woody Allen

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

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

Our separation from each other is an optical illusion of consciousness. - Albert Einstein

The art challenges the technology, and the technology inspires the art. - John Lasseter

The great art of life is sensation; to feel that we exist, even in pain. - Lord Byron

Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing. - Ralph Richardson

If thou art a master, sometimes be blind; if a servant, sometimes be deaf. - Thomas Fuller

You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul. - George Bernard Shaw

Let your life lightly dance on the edges of time, like dew on the tip of a leaf. - Unknown

The most potent and sacred command which can be laid upon any artist is the command: wait. - Iris Murdoch

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

In the cycle of a great civilization, the artist begins as priest, and ends as a clown or buffoon. - Malcolm Muggeridge

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

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

A blind man can make art if what is in his mind can be passed to another mind in some tangible form. - Sol LeWitt

You can't dance at two weddings at the same time; nor can you sit on two horses with one behind. - Yiddish Proverb

Confidence, like art, never comes from having all the answers; it comes from being open to all the questions. - Earl Gray Stevens

Art is made to disturb. Science reassures. There is only one valuable thin in art: the thing you cannot explain. - Georges Braque

Despite all our toil and progress, the art of medicine still falls somewhere between trout casting and spook writing. - Ben Hecht

The art of Biography
Is different from Geography.
Geography is about maps,
But Biography is about chaps. - G K Chesterton

Look inside. That way lies dancing to the melodies spun out by your own heart. This is a symphony. All the rest are jingles. - Anna Quindlen

Preaching is not the art of making a sermon and delivering it. Preaching is the art of making a preacher and delivering him. - Bishop Quayle

To live is to be musical, starting with the blood dancing in your veins. Everything living has a rhythm. Do you feel your music? - Michael Jackson

Some men's ambition is art, some men's ambition is fame, some men's ambition is gold. My ambition is the souls of men. - William Booth

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other. - Voltaire

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

I adore art. When I am alone with my notes, my heart pounds and the tears stream from my eyes, and my emotion and my joys are too much to bear. - Guiseppe Verdi

Humility is becoming a lost art, but it's not difficult to practice. It means that you realize that others have been involved in your success. - Harvey Mackay