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Art is a revolt against fate. - Andre Malraux

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

Anger blows out the candle of the mind. - Robert G Ingersoll

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

Art is a house that tries to be haunted. - Emily Dickinson

Even the candle seller dies in the dark. - Colombian Proverb

An art thief is a man who takes pictures. - George Carlin

We can dance on pinheads till the cows come home. - Alastair Campbell

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

Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough. - Groucho Marx

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

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing. - Marcus Aurelius

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

The immature artist imitates. The mature artist steals. - Lionel Trilling

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

Botany: The art of insulting flowers in Greek and Latin. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Mathematical genius and artistic genius touch one another. - Gosta Mittag-Leffler

The new job of art is to sit on the wall and get more expensive. - Robert Hughes

The Iranians and Persians are excellent at the art of negotiation. - Donald Trump

I'm a guy who can't function well in life, but I can in art. - Woody Allen

Tact is the art of convincing people that they know more than you do. - Raymond Mortimer

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

Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. - John Kenneth Galbraith

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance. - George Bernard Shaw

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

The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity. - Andre Gide

I wanted to buy a candle holder, but the store didn't have one. So I got a cake. - Mitch Hedberg

The truest expression of a people is in its dance and in its music. Bodies never lie. - Agnes De Mille

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. - Edith Wharton

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

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

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

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

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

I was not naturally talented. I didn't sing, dance or act, though working around that minor detail made me inventive. - Steve Martin

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

An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation. - Joseph Conrad

My candle burns at both ends,
It will not last the night;
But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends -
It gives a lovely light! - Edna St Vincent Millay

A man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened. - Fidel Castro

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. - Buddha