Hand Held Tourist

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

Art is the most beautiful of lies. - Claude Debussy

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

I view art as an inspirational tool. - Thomas Kincade

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

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

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

Dance is the hidden language of the soul. - Martha Graham

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

Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace. - Oscar Wilde

In life as in dance: Grace glides on blistered feet. - Alice Abrams

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

Life is a dance. Mindfulness is witnessing that dance. - Amit Ray

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture. - Elvis Costello

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

Advertising is the greatest art form of the twentieth century. - Marshall McLuhan

We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master. - Ernest Hemingway

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

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

Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing. - Ralph Richardson

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

Oh, if it be to choose and call thee mine, love, thou art every day my Valentine! - Thomas Hood

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

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

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

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

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

Writing is very much a playground - an artistic playground. It's the most fun thing I do. - Shania Twain

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

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

Art is made to disturb. Science reassures. There is only one valuable thin in art: the thing you cannot explain. - Georges Braque

Dance as if no one's watching, sing as if no one's listening, and live everyday as if it were your last. - Irish Proverb

'Tis not always in a physician's power to cure the sick; at times the disease is stronger than trained art. - Ovid

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

I could dance with you till the cows come home...
on second thought, I'll dance with the cows till you come home. - Groucho Marx

I don't want to be the oldest performer in captivity. I don't want to look like a little old man dancing out there. - Fred Astaire

If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him. - John F Kennedy

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