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The secret of life is in art. - Oscar Wilde

The human body is the best work of art. - Jess C. Scott

Dance can give the inarticulate a voice. - Pamela Brown

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

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

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

Magic: An art of converting superstition into coin - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

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

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

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

Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art. - F Scott Fitzgerald

Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity. - Yoko Ono

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. - Oscar Wilde

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between. - David Letterman

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls. - Pablo Picasso

Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. - Aristotle

The fine art of preparing sushi is something that you watch and learn. - Nobu Matsuhisa

The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much. - William Hazlitt

Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music. - William Stafford

I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough? - Vincent van Gogh

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

Diplomacy is the art of saying, "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock. - Will Rogers

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease. - Voltaire

The truest expression of a people is in its dance and in its music. Bodies never lie. - Agnes De Mille

There's no one way to dance. And that's kind of my philosophy about everything. - Ellen Degeneres

Football isn't a contact sport; it's a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport. - Vince Lombardi

The ballet toe shoe is one of the few instruments of torture to survive intact into our time. - Unknown

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

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

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. - John Kenneth Galbraith

Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and acitivty of man's nature. - Robert South

In neighborhoods without a usable park or playground, the incidence of childhood obesity increases by 29 percent. - Darell Hammond

Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message. - Malcolm Muggeridge

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

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

You can imagine me as a kid growing up in redneck Texas with ballet shoes, tucking the violin under my arm. I had to fight my way up. - Patrick Swayze

Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor. - Andre Gide

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