Man At Work

Art is a revolt against fate. - Andre Malraux

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

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

Any idealism is a proper subject for art. - Lafcadio Hearn

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

Truth is simple, requiring neither study nor art. - Ammian

Ballet is good, because it makes you stand up tall. - Carine Roitfeld

The 'Earth' without art is just 'eh'. - Unknown

Talking about music is like dancing about architecture. - Steve Martin

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

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday. - Don Marquis

Dance is a delicate balance between perfection and beauty. - Unknown

I'm due at the ballet. They're doin' Swoon Lake. - Archie Bunker

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

Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire. - Steven Wright

There are short-cuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them. - Vicki Baum

The new job of art is to sit on the wall and get more expensive. - Robert Hughes

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

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

Out of suffering comes creativity. You cannot spell painting without pain. - John Lithgow

Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music. - William Stafford

I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough? - Vincent van Gogh

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

The trouble with dancing naked is that not everything stops when the music does. - Unknown

Let your life lightly dance on the edges of time, like dew on the tip of a leaf. - Unknown

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. - Scott Adams

Prophecy: The art and practice of selling one's credibility for future delivery. - Ambrose Bierce

I have discovered the art of fooling diplomats. I speak the truth, and they never believe me. - Camillo Di Cavour

My love life is terrible. The last time I was inside a woman was when I visited the Statue of Liberty. - Woody Allen

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

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

Toy Soldiers was my introduction to film. I certainly didn't think I was doing art by any stretch of the imagination. - Tim Robbins

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

Preaching is not the art of making a sermon and delivering it. Preaching is the art of making a preacher and delivering him. - Bishop Quayle

When it began, cubism was a sort of analysis, which was no more painting than the description of physical phenomena was physics. - Juan Gris

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

Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. - Donald Trump

The physician should look upon the patient as a besieged city and try to rescue him with every means that art and science place at his command. - Alexander of Tralles

I adore art. When I am alone with my notes, my heart pounds and the tears stream from my eyes, and my emotion and my joys are too much to bear. - Guiseppe Verdi