Pencil Shavings

Art is a revolt against fate. - Andre Malraux

Art is the most beautiful of lies. - Claude Debussy

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

Dancing with her was like moving a piano. - Ring Lardner

Logic is neither science nor an art, but a dodge. - Benjamin Jowett

Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life. - Oscar Wilde

Ballet is good, because it makes you stand up tall. - Carine Roitfeld

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

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

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

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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

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

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. - Thomas Merton

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

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known. - Oscar Wilde

The art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on. - Henry H Ellis

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

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

Let your life lightly dance on the edges of time, like dew on the tip of a leaf. - Unknown

Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid. - Walter Winchell

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

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

The dance: a minimum of explanation, a minimum of anecdotes, and a maximum of sensations. - Maurice Bejart

Transplanting the ballet to the United States is like trying to raise a palm tree in Dakota. - Lincoln Kirsten

Shopping: The fine art of acquiring things you don't need with money you don't have. - Unknown

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

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

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. - Aristotle

Leadership: The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. - Dwight D Eisenhower

The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead. - Robert Brault

I feel strongly that the visual arts are of vast importance. Of course I could be prejudiced. I am a visual art. - Kermit The Frog

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

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 don't want to be the oldest performer in captivity. I don't want to look like a little old man dancing out there. - Fred Astaire

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 art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind. - Paracelsus

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

The physician should look upon the patient as a besieged city and try to rescue him with every means that art and science place at his command. - Alexander of Tralles