Pencil Shavings

My trade and my art is living. - Michel De Montaigne

Dust thou art, to dust returnest. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

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

Dance can give the inarticulate a voice. - Pamela Brown

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

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

We have art to save ourselves from the truth. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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

The 'Earth' without art is just 'eh'. - Unknown

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

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

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. - Oscar Wilde

Before they invented drawing boards, what did they go back to? - George Carlin

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

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

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

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

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

Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music. - George Carlin

Out of suffering comes creativity. You cannot spell painting without pain. - John Lithgow

Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music. - William Stafford

I don't want people who want to dance; I want people who have to dance. - George Balanchine

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

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

The trouble with dancing naked is that not everything stops when the music does. - Unknown

Jealousy is the art of counting someone else's blessings instead of your own. - Unknown

Perspective is to painting what the bridle is to the horse, the rudder to a ship. - Leonardo da Vinci

Propaganda is the art of persuading others of what you don't believe yourself. - Abba Eban

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

Football isn't a contact sport; it's a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport. - Vince Lombardi

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

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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

Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted in spite of your changing moods. - C S Lewis

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

Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and acitivty of man's nature. - Robert South

A formal manipulator in mathematics often experiences the discomforting feeling that his pencil surpasses him in intelligence. - Howard Eves

Go figure a crazy, mixed-up country where ballet outsells boxing. I wouldn't be surprised if their wrestling was on the level. - Bob Hope