Man At Work

Life is brief, art is long. - Hippocrates

Tea is a religion of the art of life. - Okakura Kakuzo

Either dance well or quit the ballroom. - Greek Proverb

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

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

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

I'm not making art, I'm making sushi. - Masaharu Morimoto

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

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

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

Dancing: The Highest Intelligence in the Freest Body. - Isadora Duncan

Art is not what you see, but what you make others see. - Degas

Timing has a lot to do with the outcome of a rain dance. - Unknown

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

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

The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection. - Mechelangelo di Lodovico

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

Stand-up comedy is an art form and it dies unless you expand it. - Sam Kinison

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul. - Joseph Addison

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls. - Pablo Picasso

The art of conversation is the art of hearing as well as of being heard. - William Hazlitt

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

Life beats down and crushes the soul, but art reminds you that you have one. - Stella Adler

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

Perspective is to painting what the bridle is to the horse, the rudder to a ship. - Leonardo da Vinci

The man who is ostentatious of his modesty is twin to the statue that wears a fig-leaf. - Mark Twain

There's no one way to dance. And that's kind of my philosophy about everything. - Ellen Degeneres

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

The art of art, the glory of expression, and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity. - Walt Whitman

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

'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.' - W H Auden

What's the earth with all its art, verse, music, worth -
Compared with love, found, gained, and kept? - Robert Browning

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

If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that. - John Lennon

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

I was not naturally talented. I didn't sing, dance or act, though working around that minor detail made me inventive. - Steve Martin

Look inside. That way lies dancing to the melodies spun out by your own heart. This is a symphony. All the rest are jingles. - Anna Quindlen

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

Some men's ambition is art, some men's ambition is fame, some men's ambition is gold. My ambition is the souls of men. - William Booth

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other. - Voltaire