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Life is brief, art is long. - Hippocrates

All of nature is God's art. - Dante

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

History develops, art stands still. - E.M. Forster

Art is anything you can get away with. - Marshall McLuhan

Dancing with her was like moving a piano. - Ring Lardner

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

I should not believe in a God who does not dance. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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

In life as in dance: Grace glides on blistered feet. - Alice Abrams

To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature. - August Rodin

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An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision. - James M Whistler

A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art. - Paul Cezanne

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

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art. - Susan Sontag

Mathematical genius and artistic genius touch one another. - Gosta Mittag-Leffler

Before they invented drawing boards, what did they go back to? - George Carlin

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting. - Sun Tzu

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

The fine art of preparing sushi is something that you watch and learn. - Nobu Matsuhisa

Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it. - Robert Motherwell

The art challenges the technology, and the technology inspires the art. - John Lasseter

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

Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. - John Kenneth Galbraith

Dance isn't something that can be explained in words; it has to be danced. - Paige Arden

You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul. - George Bernard Shaw

Diplomacy is the art of saying, "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock. - Will Rogers

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

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul and paints his own nature into his pictures. - Henry Ward Beecher

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

You can't dance at two weddings at the same time; nor can you sit on two horses with one behind. - Yiddish Proverb

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

Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned. - George Balanchine

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

As an experienced artist, I carry my work like a secret pregnancy. I am always aware of inner life and the need to protect it. - Julia Cameron

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

To live is to be musical, starting with the blood dancing in your veins. Everything living has a rhythm. Do you feel your music? - Michael Jackson

Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of words. - Franz Liszt