Pencil Shavings

Surfing is attitude dancing. - Gerry Lopez

Wrestling is ballet with violence. - Jesse Ventura

Dance can give the inarticulate a voice. - Pamela Brown

Education is the art of making man ethical. - Georg Hegel

Art is either a plagiarist or a revolutionist. - Paul Gauguin

I teach the art of turning anguish into delight. - Georges Bataille

Making sushi is an art, and experience is everything. - Nobu Matsuhisa

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

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

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

Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire. - Steven Wright

Life is too short to eat vanilla ice cream and dance with boring men. - Unknown

If thou art a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf. - Thomas Fuller

To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy. - Will Durant

Anyone who says you can't see a thought simply doesn't know art. - Wynetka Ann Reynolds

The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much. - William Hazlitt

All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography. - Frederico Fellini

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

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

A long marriage is two people trying to dance a duet and two solos at the same time. - Anne Taylor Fleming

I should rather men ask why no statue has been erected in my honour, than why one has. - Marcus Porcius Cato

I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself. - Mihkail Baryshnikov

The man who is ostentatious of his modesty is twin to the statue that wears a fig-leaf. - Mark Twain

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature but beautiful old people are works of art. - Unknown

Mathematics is the cheapest science. All one needs for mathematics is a pencil and a paper. - George Polya

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

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

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

Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass; it's about learning to dance in the rain. - Vivian Greene

I'd stay away from Ecstasy: this is a drug so strong it makes white people think they can dance. - Lenny Henry

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

Confidence, like art, never comes from having all the answers; it comes from being open to all the questions. - Earl Gray Stevens

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

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

Outcomes rarely turn on grand gestures or the art of the deal, but on whether you've sent someone a thank-you note. - Bernie Brillstein

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

When it began, cubism was a sort of analysis, which was no more painting than the description of physical phenomena was physics. - Juan Gris

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

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

Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen. - Pablo Picasso