Coming Up Roses

Life is brief, art is long. - Hippocrates

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

A great nation deserves great art. - Art Delage

Everything's coming up roses - for me. - Ethel Merman

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

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

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

The desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose. - Isaiah 35:1

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

Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. - Oscar Wilde

If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion. - Noam Chomsky

Before they invented drawing boards, what did they go back to? - George Carlin

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

Tact is the art of convincing people that they know more than you do. - Raymond Mortimer

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

The art challenges the technology, and the technology inspires the art. - John Lasseter

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

If I could tell you what it meant, there would be no point in dancing it. - Isadora Duncan

Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music. - George Carlin

In the haunted house of life, art is the only stair that doesn't creak. - Tom Robbins

Propaganda is the art of persuading others of what you don't believe yourself. - Abba Eban

The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them. - Bernard M Baruch

Roses are red, Pizza sauce is too, I ordered a large, and None of it is for you. - Unknown

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

Anyone who thinks the art of conversation is dead ought to tell a child to go to bed. - Robert Gallagher

To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist. - Robert Schumann

The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions which have been hidden by the answers. - James Baldwin

The most potent and sacred command which can be laid upon any artist is the command: wait. - Iris Murdoch

A half finished shawl left on the coffee table isn't a mess; it's an object of art. - Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time. It is just that the others are behind the time. - Martha Graham

I'm proud of my Irish heritage and culture and this show will feature a lot of Irish dancing. - Michael Flatley

A creative artist works on his next composition because he was not satisfied with his previous one. - Dmitri Shostakovich

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

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

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

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

My wife was a make-up artist, and she's a total product junkie. Our bathroom is packed full of lotions and potions so I end up trying them out. - Robert Carlyle