Resting Bird

Life is brief, art is long. - Hippocrates

A great nation deserves great art. - Art Delage

Wrestling is ballet with violence. - Jesse Ventura

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

Vision is the art of seeing things invisible. - Jonathan Swift

Life is the art of drawing without an eraser. - John Gardner

To watch us dance is to hear our hearts speak. - Indian Proverb

A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing. - Clive James

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

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship. - William Blake

The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook. - William James

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

Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity. - Yoko Ono

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

Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery. - John Ruskin

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

Drive slow and enjoy the scenery. Drive fast and join the scenery. - Douglas Horton

The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp. - John Berry

There's no need for a piece of sculpture in a home that has a cat. - Wesley Bates

An optimist is someone who gets treed by a lion but enjoys the scenery. - Walter Winchell

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

In our progress towards the goal, we ever see more and more enchanting scenery. - Mahatma Gandhi

The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you. - Oscar Wilde

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

My husband, Fang, is so dumb I once said, "There's a dead bird." He looked up. - Phyllis Diller

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

The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic slice of truth, wisdom, is dying out. - Walter Benjamin

The really happy person is the one who can enjoy the scenery, even when they have to take a detour. - James H. Jeans

Never pay attention to what critics say. Remember, a statue has never been set up in honor of a critic. - Jean Sibelius

I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm. - Franklin D Roosevelt

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

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

Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message. - Malcolm Muggeridge

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

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

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

The biggest thing separating people from their artistic ambitions is not a lack of talent. It's the lack of a deadline. - Chris Baty

You are Mr. Owl. I am Ms. Hummingbird. We may come from different species but as long as you're a bird, I'm a bird too. - Glad Munaiseche

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

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