Pencil Pusher

Politics is the art of the possible. - Otto von Bismarck

It costs nothing to encourage an artist. - Kevin Smith

Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life. - Oscar Wilde

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home. - Twyla Tharp

The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery. - Francis Bacon

Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough. - Groucho Marx

Art is making something out of nothing and selling it. - Frank Zappa

Painting is stronger than me, it makes me do its bidding. - Pablo Picasso

We need a leader that wrote "The Art of the Deal". - Donald Trump

They couldn't find the artist, so they hung the picture. - Unknown

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

The one thing that can solve most of our problems is dancing. - James Brown

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

The art of mothering is to teach the art of living to children. - Elaine Heffner

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

Oratory is the art of making a loud noise seem like a deep thought. - American Proverb

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

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

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

We have art so that we do not die of reality. Reality is too much with us. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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

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

The most potent and sacred command which can be laid upon any artist is the command: wait. - Iris Murdoch

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. - Oscar Wilde

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

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

The mission of the artist in an over-technologized society, is to call the old magic back to life. - Tom Robbins

A creative artist works on his next composition because he was not satisfied with his previous one. - Dmitri Shostakovich

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

Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field. - Dwight D Eisenhower

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. - Albert Einstein

Art is a human activity having for its purpose the transmission to others of the highest and best feelings. - Leo Tolstoy

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

Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and acitivty of man's nature. - Robert South

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

He who would learn to fly on day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind. - Paracelsus

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing. - William James

The only happy artist is a dead artist, because only then you can't change. After I die, I'll probably come back as a paintbrush. - Sylvester Stallone

Humility is becoming a lost art, but it's not difficult to practice. It means that you realize that others have been involved in your success. - Harvey Mackay