Fossilized Sid

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

Art is the signature of civilizations. - Beverly Sills

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

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so. - Douglas Adams

Maintenance is as much art as it is science. - Unknown

Vision is the art of seeing things invisible. - Jonathan Swift

Life is the art of drawing without an eraser. - John Gardner

A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing. - Clive James

Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence. - Joseph Krutch

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

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

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

I'm due at the ballet. They're doin' Swoon Lake. - Archie Bunker

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

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

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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

We have art so that we do not die of reality. Reality is too much with us. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. - John Kenneth Galbraith

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance. - George Bernard Shaw

To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine. - Henry Ward Beecher

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

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

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

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

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

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece. - Ludwig Erhard

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

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. - John Kenneth Galbraith

Build. Destroy. Rebuild. I've mastered the art of bouncing back. Now to master the art of not having to. - Unknown

Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings. - Vicki Baum

Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching. - Satchel Paige

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

Look inside. That way lies dancing to the melodies spun out by your own heart. This is a symphony. All the rest are jingles. - Anna Quindlen

The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind. - Paracelsus

Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other. - Oscar Ameringer

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