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Art is the most beautiful of lies. - Claude Debussy

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

Politics is the art of the possible. - Otto von Bismarck

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

Dance can give the inarticulate a voice. - Pamela Brown

Dancing with her was like moving a piano. - Ring Lardner

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

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

The only time I feel alive is when I'm painting. - Andy Warhol

Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough. - Groucho Marx

Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing. - Robert Benchley

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

Talking about music is like dancing about architecture. - Steve Martin

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday. - Don Marquis

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

Management is a practice where art, science, and craft meet. - Henry Mintzberg

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

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

Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music. - William Stafford

Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly. - Morticia Addams

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

I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough? - Vincent van Gogh

Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises. - Samuel Butler

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

Perspective is to painting what the bridle is to the horse, the rudder to a ship. - Leonardo da Vinci

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. - Albert Einstein

Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it. - Laurence J Peter

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

In my house on the ceilings I have paintings of the rooms above, so I never have to go upstairs. - Steven Wright

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad. - Salvador Dali

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. - Aristotle

You can't dance at two weddings at the same time; nor can you sit on two horses with one behind. - Yiddish Proverb

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

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

The minute there's a map, there is no art. Paint by numbers is not art. Paint by numbers is a mechanical activity. - Seth Godin

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living. - Frederic Amiel

Some men's ambition is art, some men's ambition is fame, some men's ambition is gold. My ambition is the souls of men. - William Booth