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Wrestling is ballet with violence. - Jesse Ventura

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

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

An art thief is a man who takes pictures. - George Carlin

Vision is the art of seeing things invisible. - Jonathan Swift

Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence. - Joseph Krutch

We can dance on pinheads till the cows come home. - Alastair Campbell

Politics is the art of controlling your environment. - Hunter S. Thompson

In life as in dance: Grace glides on blistered feet. - Alice Abrams

Art is not what you see, but what you make others see. - Degas

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

Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing. - Robert Benchley

One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art. - Oscar Wilde

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

Advertising is the greatest art form of the twentieth century. - Marshall McLuhan

The Iranians and Persians are excellent at the art of negotiation. - Donald Trump

We're fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance. - Japanese Proverb

The art of conversation is the art of hearing as well as of being heard. - William Hazlitt

Out of suffering comes creativity. You cannot spell painting without pain. - John Lithgow

We have art so that we do not die of reality. Reality is too much with us. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

In the haunted house of life, art is the only stair that doesn't creak. - Tom Robbins

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

The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them. - Bernard M Baruch

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. - Scott Adams

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

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better. - Andre Gide

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

In my house on the ceilings I have paintings of the rooms above, so I never have to go upstairs. - Steven Wright

The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient, whilst Mother Nature takes care of the cure. - Voltaire

Leadership: The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. - Dwight D Eisenhower

My love life is terrible. The last time I was inside a woman was when I visited the Statue of Liberty. - Woody Allen

Dance as if no one's watching, sing as if no one's listening, and live everyday as if it were your last. - Irish Proverb

It's tangible, it's solid, it's beautiful. It's artistic, from my standpoint, and I just love real estate. - Donald Trump

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

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing. - Clive James

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

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

In New York, everybody looks great and is well dressed, but seeing someone in Ohio wearing Marc Jacobs is like spotting an owl in Central Park. Rare. - Isabel Gillies