Pencil Shavings

Art is the most beautiful of lies. - Claude Debussy

I view art as an inspirational tool. - Thomas Kincade

One does not marry art. One ravishes it. - Edgar Degas

All great art comes from a sense of outrage. - Glenn Close

What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art. - Augustus Saint-Gaudens

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

Dancing: The Highest Intelligence in the Freest Body. - Isadora Duncan

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery. - Mark Van Doren

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

Dancing can reveal all the mystery that music conceals. - Charles Baudelaire

Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory. - Oscar Wilde

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

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

One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art. - Oscar Wilde

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

Art is the demonstration that the ordinary is extraordinary. - Amedee Ozenfant

We need a leader that wrote "The Art of the Deal". - Donald Trump

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

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

Art doesn't reproduce the visible but rather makes it visible. - Paul Klee

A painting is never finished — it simply stops in interesting places. - Paul Gardner

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

Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work. - Seth Godin

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. - Scott Adams

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

Prophecy: The art and practice of selling one's credibility for future delivery. - Ambrose Bierce

When other little girls wanted to be ballet dancers, I kind of wanted to be a vampire. - Angelina Jolie

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art. - Eleanor Roosevelt

What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying. - Oscar Wilde

Writing is very much a playground - an artistic playground. It's the most fun thing I do. - Shania Twain

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

Leadership is the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done. - Vance Packard

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

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

I don't think much of a dance step where the girl looks like she was being carried out of a burning building. - Kin Hubbard

Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message. - Malcolm Muggeridge

Despite all our toil and progress, the art of medicine still falls somewhere between trout casting and spook writing. - Ben Hecht

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

The greatest achievement of humanity is not its works of art, science, or technology, but the recognition of its own dysfunction. - Eckhart Tolle

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