Sidewalk Pickpocket

The modern work of art is a symbol. - Herbert Read

The artist in me cries out for design. - Robert Frost

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

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

It costs nothing to encourage an artist. - Kevin Smith

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

Life is the art of drawing without an eraser. - John Gardner

Entertain a clown and you become part of the circus. - Unknown

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

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture. - Elvis Costello

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

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. - Pablo Picasso

Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire. - Steven Wright

There are short-cuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them. - Vicki Baum

Opportunity dances with those who are already on the dance floor. - Jackson Brown

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

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

The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes. - Tony Blair

If I could tell you what it meant, there would be no point in dancing it. - Isadora Duncan

Life beats down and crushes the soul, but art reminds you that you have one. - Stella Adler

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

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

The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions which have been hidden by the answers. - James Baldwin

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. - Albert Einstein

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

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. - Oscar Wilde

A half finished shawl left on the coffee table isn't a mess; it's an object of art. - Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

Copy nature and you infringe on the work of our Lord. Interpret nature and you are an artist. - Jacques Lipchitz

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

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad. - Salvador Dali

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

I'd stay away from Ecstasy: this is a drug so strong it makes white people think they can dance. - Lenny Henry

You can't dance at two weddings at the same time; nor can you sit on two horses with one behind. - Yiddish Proverb

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

Psychiatry is the art of teaching people how to stand on their own two feet while reclining on couches. - Sigmund Freud

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

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living. - Frederic Amiel

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

Logic: the art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. - Ambrose Bierce

Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other. - Oscar Ameringer