Pencil Pusher

Surfing is attitude dancing. - Gerry Lopez

The painting has a life of its own. - Jackson Pollock

Art is either a plagiarist or a revolutionist. - Paul Gauguin

God is not interested in your art but, your heart. - Ifeanyi E. Onuoha

Ballet is good, because it makes you stand up tall. - Carine Roitfeld

The only time I feel alive is when I'm painting. - Andy Warhol

The art of being a slave is to rule one's master. - Diogenes

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

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

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

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

The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure. - Dale Carnegie

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

The new job of art is to sit on the wall and get more expensive. - Robert Hughes

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

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls. - Pablo Picasso

In an artist's life, death is perhaps not the most difficult thing. - Vincent van Gogh

The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much. - William Hazlitt

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

Life beats down and crushes the soul, but art reminds you that you have one. - Stella Adler

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can inspire. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. - Pablo Picasso

A long marriage is two people trying to dance a duet and two solos at the same time. - Anne Taylor Fleming

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

When other little girls wanted to be ballet dancers, I kind of wanted to be a vampire. - Angelina Jolie

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

No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time. It is just that the others are behind the time. - Martha Graham

Liability: 1. The art of convincing others of your innocence; 2. A talent for telling untruths. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

In my house on the ceilings I have paintings of the rooms above, so I never have to go upstairs. - Steven Wright

We ought to dance with rapture that we might be alive... and part of the living, incarnate cosmos. - D.H. Lawrence

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

The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead. - Robert Brault

What's the earth with all its art, verse, music, worth -
Compared with love, found, gained, and kept? - Robert Browning

We have to prove beyond the shadow of a doubt that it is talent and training, not color, that makes a ballet dancer. - Arthur Mitchell

A formal manipulator in mathematics often experiences the discomforting feeling that his pencil surpasses him in intelligence. - Howard Eves

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

When it began, cubism was a sort of analysis, which was no more painting than the description of physical phenomena was physics. - Juan Gris

Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor. - Andre Gide

Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other. - Oscar Ameringer

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