Sidewalk Pickpocket

Life is brief, art is long. - Hippocrates

Every artist was first an amateur. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

All dancing girls are nineteen years old. - Japanese Proverb

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

I teach the art of turning anguish into delight. - Georges Bataille

I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting. - Jackson Pollock

The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook. - William James

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

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

The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery. - Francis Bacon

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

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

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

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

Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability. - William Osler

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

I don't own a camera, so I travel with a police sketch artist. - George Carlin

Oratory is the art of making a loud noise seem like a deep thought. - American Proverb

There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome. - Andre Gide

Anyone who says you can't see a thought simply doesn't know art. - Wynetka Ann Reynolds

All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography. - Frederico Fellini

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

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

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can inspire. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Humour is a rubber sword - it allows you to make a point without drawing blood. - Mary Hirsch

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. - Pablo Picasso

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

What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying. - Oscar Wilde

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

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

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

Boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music, no choreography, and the dancers hit each other. - Jack Handey

Just as the bird sings or the butterfly soars, because it is his natural characteristic, so the artist works. - Alma Gluck

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

To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way. - E M Forster

Work like you don't need the money, dance like no one is watching, and love like you've never been hurt. - Mark Twain

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

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

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies. - Napoleon Bonaparte