Pencil Pusher

Life is brief, art is long. - Hippocrates

Life calls the tune, we dance. - John Galsworthy

Dust thou art, to dust returnest. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Every artist was first an amateur. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wrestling is ballet with violence. - Jesse Ventura

The artist in me cries out for design. - Robert Frost

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

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

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

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

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

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

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. - Pablo Picasso

Life doesn't imitate art; it imitates bad television. - Woody Allen

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

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

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

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. - Thomas Merton

A really well made buttonhole is the only link between art and nature. - Oscar Wilde

The role of the artist today is to defend feeling against the machine. - Marty Rubin

Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing. - Ralph Richardson

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

It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art. - Oscar Wilde

The ballet toe shoe is one of the few instruments of torture to survive intact into our time. - Unknown

Leadership is the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done. - Vance Packard

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

I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast. - Viktor Frankl

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

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

Art is made to disturb. Science reassures. There is only one valuable thin in art: the thing you cannot explain. - Georges Braque

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

A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist. - R. Buckminster Fuller

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

Toy Soldiers was my introduction to film. I certainly didn't think I was doing art by any stretch of the imagination. - Tim Robbins

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

Art owes its origin to nature. This beautiful creation supplied the first model, while the original teacher was that divine intelligence. - Giorgio Vasari

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