Hand Held Tourist

Life calls the tune, we dance. - John Galsworthy

Art is the signature of civilizations. - Beverly Sills

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

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

Our humor turns our anger into a fine art. - Mary Kay Blakely

Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life. - Oscar Wilde

The art of love is largely the art of persistence. - Albert Ellis

Politics is the art of controlling your environment. - Hunter S. Thompson

The art of a people is a true mirror to their minds. - Jawaharlal Nehru

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

The art of being a slave is to rule one's master. - Diogenes

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

Why is it called tourist season if we can't shoot at them? - George Carlin

Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability. - William Osler

Opportunity dances with those who are already on the dance floor. - Jackson Brown

Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. - Aristotle

The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes. - Tony Blair

The great art of life is sensation; to feel that we exist, even in pain. - Lord Byron

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

I love contemporary art, although I wouldn't want a pickled shark in my house. - Bruno Tonioli

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

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

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

I have a wonderful make-up crew. They're the same people restoring the Statue of Liberty. - Bob Hope

It's not your painting anymore. It stopped being your painting the moment that you finished it. - Jeff Melvoin

Boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music, no choreography, and the dancers hit each other. - Jack Handey

I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast. - Viktor Frankl

To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way. - E M Forster

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

Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and acitivty of man's nature. - Robert South

I don't think much of a dance step where the girl looks like she was being carried out of a burning building. - Kin Hubbard

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

Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting, or living itself, which is the greatest art of all. - Ray Bradbury

The greatest achievement of humanity is not its works of art, science, or technology, but the recognition of its own dysfunction. - Eckhart Tolle

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

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

For me, the drive is storytelling. To be a part of an art that tells a story and to be a catalyst, a color in that, is very exciting. - Alden Ehrenreich

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