Sidewalk Pickpocket

Life is brief, art is long. - Hippocrates

It costs nothing to encourage an artist. - Kevin Smith

I'm not making art, I'm making sushi. - Masaharu Morimoto

The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity. - Douglas Horton

An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one. - Charles Horton Cooley

You can dance anywhere, even if only in your heart. - Unknown

The only time I feel alive is when I'm painting. - Andy Warhol

Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist. - Franz Liszt

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

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

Talking about music is like dancing about architecture. - Steve Martin

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

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

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

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

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

The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure. - Dale Carnegie

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

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

Life is too short to eat vanilla ice cream and dance with boring men. - Unknown

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

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

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

An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have. - Andy Warhol

The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you. - Oscar Wilde

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

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

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

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

Writing is very much a playground - an artistic playground. It's the most fun thing I do. - Shania Twain

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

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

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

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

We've never been cool, we're hot. Irish people are Italians who can't dress, Jamaicans who can't dance. - Bono

We all know that art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. - Pablo Picasso

The greatest achievement of humanity is not its works of art, science, or technology, but the recognition of its own dysfunction. - Eckhart Tolle

Art is the window to man's soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see the man within. - Claudia Johnson