Pencil Pusher

Dancing is silent poetry. - Simonides

Life is brief, art is long. - Hippocrates

Art is a revolt against fate. - Andre Malraux

All of nature is God's art. - Dante

One does not marry art. One ravishes it. - Edgar Degas

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

The art of love is largely the art of persistence. - Albert Ellis

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

The art of government is the organization of idolatry. - George Bernard Shaw

Art in nature is rhythmic and has a horror of constraint. - Robert Delaunay

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

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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

Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music. - George Carlin

Out of suffering comes creativity. You cannot spell painting without pain. - John Lithgow

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

Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises. - Samuel Butler

Italy is the home of art and swindling; home of religion and moral rottenness. - Mark Twain

Jealousy is the art of counting someone else's blessings instead of your own. - Unknown

Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. - Gunter Grass

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art. - Eleanor Roosevelt

Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experience treacherous, judgment difficult. - Hypocrites

Mathematics is the cheapest science. All one needs for mathematics is a pencil and a paper. - George Polya

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

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

Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass; it's about learning to dance in the rain. - Vivian Greene

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

Visual storytelling of one kind or another has been around since cavemen were drawing on the walls. - Frank Darabont

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

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece. - Ludwig Erhard

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

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

Despite all our toil and progress, the art of medicine still falls somewhere between trout casting and spook writing. - Ben Hecht

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

The biggest thing separating people from their artistic ambitions is not a lack of talent. It's the lack of a deadline. - Chris Baty

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy. - Groucho Marx

Preaching is not the art of making a sermon and delivering it. Preaching is the art of making a preacher and delivering him. - Bishop Quayle

We all know that art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. - Pablo Picasso

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