Measure Twice, Cut Once

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

I view art as an inspirational tool. - Thomas Kincade

Dance can give the inarticulate a voice. - Pamela Brown

It costs nothing to encourage an artist. - Kevin Smith

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

What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art. - Augustus Saint-Gaudens

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

I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting. - Jackson Pollock

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

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

Love the art in yourself, not yourself in the art. - Constantin Stanislavski

Good work rarely sells. I believe this of any art. - Arthur W Pinero

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

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

Dancing: The Highest Intelligence in the Freest Body. - Isadora Duncan

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

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

Can't act. Can sing. Balding. Can dance a little. - MGM Executive

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

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing. - Marcus Aurelius

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

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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

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

The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune. - Plutarch

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

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

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We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master. - Ernest Hemingway

All the statistics in the world can't measure the warmth of a smile. - Chris Hart

There are moments when Art almost attains to the dignity of manual labor. - Oscar Wilde

A portrait is a picture in which there is something wrong with the mouth. - Eugene Speicher

Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music. - William Stafford

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance. - George Bernard Shaw

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

The trouble with dancing naked is that not everything stops when the music does. - Unknown

Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work. - Seth Godin

Perspective is to painting what the bridle is to the horse, the rudder to a ship. - Leonardo da Vinci

The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them. - Bernard M Baruch

Dance till the stars come down from the rafters! Dance, Dance, Dance till you drop! - W H Auden

The indignation of politicians is NOT a good measure of the gravity of any situation. - Paul Harvey

There's no one way to dance. And that's kind of my philosophy about everything. - Ellen Degeneres

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order. - Alfred N Whitehead

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

Measure thy life by loss instead of gain, not by the wine drunk, but the wine poured forth. - Harriet King

Writing is very much a playground - an artistic playground. It's the most fun thing I do. - Shania Twain

I like to put on a wig or a fake mustache and do something silly with friends, do a little dance. - Tom Lenk

Too bad all the people who know how to run this country are busy running taxicabs or cutting hair. - George Burns

The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic slice of truth, wisdom, is dying out. - Walter Benjamin

It's not your painting anymore. It stopped being your painting the moment that you finished it. - Jeff Melvoin

The most important measure of how good a game I played was how much better I'd made my teammates play. - Bill Russell

There is never a better measure of what a person is than what he does when he's absolutely free to choose. - William M. Bulger

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

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

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

I'm not interested in cutting the feet off my characters or stretching them to make them fit my certain political view. - Margaret Atwood

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

I've never believed in measuring one's worth by the size of his or her bank account. I prefer to look at distance traveled. - Dan Rather

You can imagine me as a kid growing up in redneck Texas with ballet shoes, tucking the violin under my arm. I had to fight my way up. - Patrick Swayze

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

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

My wife was a make-up artist, and she's a total product junkie. Our bathroom is packed full of lotions and potions so I end up trying them out. - Robert Carlyle