Sewing Sculpture

History develops, art stands still. - E.M. Forster

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

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

The human body is the best work of art. - Jess C. Scott

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

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

To watch us dance is to hear our hearts speak. - Indian Proverb

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

The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook. - William James

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

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

I would believe only in a God that knows how to dance. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art. - Paul Cezanne

It is a symbol of Irish art. The cracked looking-glass of a servant. - James Joyce

It is through art, and through art only, that we can realize our perfection. - Oscar Wilde

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

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

The practice of art isn't to make a living. It's to make your soul grow. - Kurt Vonnegut

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. - Pablo Picasso

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

Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. - Gunter Grass

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

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

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better. - Andre Gide

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

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

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist. - Oscar Wilde

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

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

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

We all know that art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. - Pablo Picasso

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing. - Clive James

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

An intellectual is a man who says a simple thing in a difficult way; an artist is a man who says a difficult thing in a simple way. - Charles Bukowski

An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation. - Joseph Conrad

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

Humility is becoming a lost art, but it's not difficult to practice. It means that you realize that others have been involved in your success. - Harvey Mackay

I'm always tinkering with something - suddenly I'll think I can work with wood, but then I'll realize I can't, so I go back to sewing. - Melissa McCarthy