Pencil Shavings

Dancing is silent poetry. - Simonides

Life calls the tune, we dance. - John Galsworthy

A great nation deserves great art. - Art Delage

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

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

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

You can dance anywhere, even if only in your heart. - Unknown

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

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

Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art. - Claude Debussy

If the #2 pencil is the most popular, why is it still #2? - George Carlin

Life doesn't imitate art; it imitates bad television. - Woody Allen

Painting is stronger than me, it makes me do its bidding. - Pablo Picasso

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

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

There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome. - Andre Gide

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

The great art of life is sensation; to feel that we exist, even in pain. - Lord Byron

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

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

The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you. - Oscar Wilde

We dance in a circle and suppose, while the secret sits in the middle and knows. - Robert Frost

Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on. - Robert Frost

It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art. - Oscar Wilde

Anyone who thinks the art of conversation is dead ought to tell a child to go to bed. - Robert Gallagher

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

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

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

It's amazing what you can do with an E in A-Level art, a twisted imagination and a chainsaw. - Damien Hirst

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

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. - Albert Einstein

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

Art is made to disturb. Science reassures. There is only one valuable thin in art: the thing you cannot explain. - Georges Braque

'Tis not always in a physician's power to cure the sick; at times the disease is stronger than trained art. - Ovid

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

Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. - Donald Trump

For me, the drive is storytelling. To be a part of an art that tells a story and to be a catalyst, a color in that, is very exciting. - Alden Ehrenreich