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Dust thou art, to dust returnest. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Art is the most beautiful of lies. - Claude Debussy

Tea is a religion of the art of life. - Okakura Kakuzo

Art is anything you can get away with. - Marshall McLuhan

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

All dancing girls are nineteen years old. - Japanese Proverb

What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art. - Augustus Saint-Gaudens

What is this, an audience or an oil painting? - Milton Berle

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

No one should have to dance backwards all their lives. - Jill Ruckelshaus

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

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

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

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

Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between. - David Letterman

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul. - Joseph Addison

The Iranians and Persians are excellent at the art of negotiation. - Donald Trump

I'm a guy who can't function well in life, but I can in art. - Woody Allen

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

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

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known. - Oscar Wilde

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

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

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

It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse. - Adlai Stevenson

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

The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity. - Andre Gide

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

There's no one way to dance. And that's kind of my philosophy about everything. - Ellen Degeneres

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

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

Leadership: The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. - Dwight D Eisenhower

A blind man can make art if what is in his mind can be passed to another mind in some tangible form. - Sol LeWitt

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

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

Logic: the art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. - Ambrose Bierce

Art owes its origin to nature. This beautiful creation supplied the first model, while the original teacher was that divine intelligence. - Giorgio Vasari

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