Sidewalk Pickpocket

One does not marry art. One ravishes it. - Edgar Degas

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

We have art to save ourselves from the truth. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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

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

The art of love is largely the art of persistence. - Albert Ellis

Love the art in yourself, not yourself in the art. - Constantin Stanislavski

Art is making something out of nothing and selling it. - Frank Zappa

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

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

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

If you're already walking on thin ice, you might as well dance. - Proverb

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

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

All you need to grow fine, vigorous grass is a crack in your sidewalk. - Will Rogers

The art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on. - Henry H Ellis

The practice of art isn't to make a living. It's to make your soul grow. - Kurt Vonnegut

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

Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on. - Robert Frost

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

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

Prophecy: The art and practice of selling one's credibility for future delivery. - Ambrose Bierce

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

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art. - Eleanor Roosevelt

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

Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experience treacherous, judgment difficult. - Hypocrites

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

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

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

Never pay attention to what critics say. Remember, a statue has never been set up in honor of a critic. - Jean Sibelius

Because I'm an artist, I can't ever consider myself a nihilist, so I suppose I'm optimistic. - Marilyn Manson

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece. - Ludwig Erhard

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

It is our art that has an opportunity to leave a footprint in the sand. They don't wrap fish in our work. - Hugh N Jacobsen

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

We have to prove beyond the shadow of a doubt that it is talent and training, not color, that makes a ballet dancer. - Arthur Mitchell

Outcomes rarely turn on grand gestures or the art of the deal, but on whether you've sent someone a thank-you note. - Bernie Brillstein

I could dance with you till the cows come home...
on second thought, I'll dance with the cows till you come home. - Groucho Marx

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

Art owes its origin to nature. This beautiful creation supplied the first model, while the original teacher was that divine intelligence. - Giorgio Vasari