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Life is brief, art is long. - Hippocrates

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

I view art as an inspirational tool. - Thomas Kincade

All dancing girls are nineteen years old. - Japanese Proverb

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

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

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

I should not believe in a God who does not dance. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

God is not interested in your art but, your heart. - Ifeanyi E. Onuoha

Good work rarely sells. I believe this of any art. - Arthur W Pinero

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

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

A clown is like aspirin, only he works twice as fast. - Groucho Marx

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

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

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

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

They couldn't find the artist, so they hung the picture. - Unknown

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

The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection. - Mechelangelo di Lodovico

In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport. - Julia Child

Most women are afraid of clowns, but somehow end up still dating one. - Unknown

There are moments when Art almost attains to the dignity of manual labor. - Oscar Wilde

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

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

Oh, if it be to choose and call thee mine, love, thou art every day my Valentine! - Thomas Hood

Diplomacy is the art of saying, "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock. - Will Rogers

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

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

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

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 work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left. - Alexander Pope

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance. - e e cummings

The mission of the artist in an over-technologized society, is to call the old magic back to life. - Tom Robbins

Build. Destroy. Rebuild. I've mastered the art of bouncing back. Now to master the art of not having to. - Unknown

He who would learn to fly on day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor. - Andre Gide

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