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All art is quite useless. - Oscar Wilde

Life is brief, art is long. - Hippocrates

All of nature is God's art. - Dante

Art is the most beautiful of lies. - Claude Debussy

I view art as an inspirational tool. - Thomas Kincade

A gun gives you the body, not the bird. - Henry David Thoreau

Either dance well or quit the ballroom. - Greek Proverb

We have art to save ourselves from the truth. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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

Love the art in yourself, not yourself in the art. - Constantin Stanislavski

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings. - Salvador Dali

Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art. - Claude Debussy

The bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation. - Abdul Kalam

The early bird catches the worm, eats more, and dies sooner. - Czech Proverb

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

The Iranians and Persians are excellent at the art of negotiation. - Donald Trump

A bird in the hand is a certainty, but a bird in the bush may sing. - Bret Harte

There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome. - Andre Gide

Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come. - Chinese Proverb

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

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

Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart go together. - John Ruskin

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

I don't want people who want to dance; I want people who have to dance. - George Balanchine

It is through art, and through art only, that we can realize our perfection. - Oscar Wilde

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer; it sings because it has a song. - Lou Holtz

Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid. - Walter Winchell

I should rather men ask why no statue has been erected in my honour, than why one has. - Marcus Porcius Cato

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

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it. - Dwight D Eisenhower

Leadership: The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. - Dwight D Eisenhower

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

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

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

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

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

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

You can imagine me as a kid growing up in redneck Texas with ballet shoes, tucking the violin under my arm. I had to fight my way up. - Patrick Swayze

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival. - C S Lewis