Shadow Box Art

The secret of life is in art. - Oscar Wilde

Art is a house that tries to be haunted. - Emily Dickinson

Love the art in yourself, not yourself in the art. - Constantin Stanislavski

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

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

Love beauty; it is the shadow of God on the universe. - Gabriela Mistral

The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery. - Francis Bacon

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

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. - Pablo Picasso

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

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

Dancing is like bank robbery - it takes split second timing. - Twyla Tharp

The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure. - Dale Carnegie

There are short-cuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them. - Vicki Baum

In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport. - Julia Child

The art of mothering is to teach the art of living to children. - Elaine Heffner

Stand-up comedy is an art form and it dies unless you expand it. - Sam Kinison

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

A really well made buttonhole is the only link between art and nature. - Oscar Wilde

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

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

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

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. - Emile Zola

Italy is the home of art and swindling; home of religion and moral rottenness. - Mark Twain

Dance isn't something that can be explained in words; it has to be danced. - Paige Arden

Diplomacy is the art of saying, "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock. - Will Rogers

Copy nature and you infringe on the work of our Lord. Interpret nature and you are an artist. - Jacques Lipchitz

We ought to dance with rapture that we might be alive... and part of the living, incarnate cosmos. - D.H. Lawrence

It's not your painting anymore. It stopped being your painting the moment that you finished it. - Jeff Melvoin

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

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

'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.' - W H Auden

Just as the bird sings or the butterfly soars, because it is his natural characteristic, so the artist works. - Alma Gluck

What's the earth with all its art, verse, music, worth -
Compared with love, found, gained, and kept? - Robert Browning

The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up. - Jay Leno

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

The birch-bark canoe of the savage seems to me one of the most beautiful and perfect things of the kind constructed by human art. - William C. Bryant

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

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

Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of words. - Franz Liszt