Man At Work

No Sane man will dance. - Cicero

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

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

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

Dancing with her was like moving a piano. - Ring Lardner

All great art comes from a sense of outrage. - Glenn Close

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

Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence. - Joseph Krutch

We can dance on pinheads till the cows come home. - Alastair Campbell

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

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery. - Mark Van Doren

The art of government is the organization of idolatry. - George Bernard Shaw

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

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

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art. - Susan Sontag

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

The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure. - Dale Carnegie

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

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

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

If thou art a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf. - Thomas Fuller

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

Anyone who says you can't see a thought simply doesn't know art. - Wynetka Ann Reynolds

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

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

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

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

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

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance. - e e cummings

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. - Aristotle

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

You can't dance at two weddings at the same time; nor can you sit on two horses with one behind. - Yiddish Proverb

Confidence, like art, never comes from having all the answers; it comes from being open to all the questions. - Earl Gray Stevens

Outcomes rarely turn on grand gestures or the art of the deal, but on whether you've sent someone a thank-you note. - Bernie Brillstein

We've never been cool, we're hot. Irish people are Italians who can't dress, Jamaicans who can't dance. - Bono

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

We all know that art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. - Pablo Picasso

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