Measure Twice, Cut Once

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

I view art as an inspirational tool. - Thomas Kincade

It costs nothing to encourage an artist. - Kevin Smith

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

We have art to save ourselves from the truth. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Life is the art of drawing without an eraser. - John Gardner

I teach the art of turning anguish into delight. - Georges Bataille

We can dance on pinheads till the cows come home. - Alastair Campbell

The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook. - William James

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

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

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

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

Dancing can reveal all the mystery that music conceals. - Charles Baudelaire

The immature artist imitates. The mature artist steals. - Lionel Trilling

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

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Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art. - Claude Debussy

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

Nothing burns more calories than dancing in 5-inch heels. - Ariana Grande

The measure of a life is not its duration but its donation. - Corrie Ten Boom

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

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

Opportunity dances with those who are already on the dance floor. - Jackson Brown

Life is too short to eat vanilla ice cream and dance with boring men. - Unknown

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

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

A painting is never finished — it simply stops in interesting places. - Paul Gardner

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

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

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

Humour is a rubber sword - it allows you to make a point without drawing blood. - Mary Hirsch

The practice of art isn't to make a living. It's to make your soul grow. - Kurt Vonnegut

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

Never measure your generosity by what you give, but rather by what you have left. - Fulton J Sheen

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

Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on. - Robert Frost

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease. - Voltaire

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

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

I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself. - Mihkail Baryshnikov

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

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. - Albert Einstein

The dance: a minimum of explanation, a minimum of anecdotes, and a maximum of sensations. - Maurice Bejart

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

Football isn't a contact sport; it's a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport. - Vince Lombardi

What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying. - Oscar Wilde

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

In the cycle of a great civilization, the artist begins as priest, and ends as a clown or buffoon. - Malcolm Muggeridge

Leadership: The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. - Dwight D Eisenhower

You can measure opportunity with the same yardstick that measures the risk involved. They go together. - Earl Nightingale

Psychiatry is the art of teaching people how to stand on their own two feet while reclining on couches. - Sigmund Freud

Build. Destroy. Rebuild. I've mastered the art of bouncing back. Now to master the art of not having to. - Unknown

I went to the museum where they had all the heads and arms from the statues that are in all the other museums. - Steven Wright

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

To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way. - E M Forster

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

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

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

We've never been cool, we're hot. Irish people are Italians who can't dress, Jamaicans who can't dance. - Bono

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

An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation. - Joseph Conrad

For me, the drive is storytelling. To be a part of an art that tells a story and to be a catalyst, a color in that, is very exciting. - Alden Ehrenreich

Drink and dance and laugh and lie,
Love, the reeling midnight through,
For tomorrow we shall die!
(But, alas, we never do.) - Dorothy Parker

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies. - Napoleon Bonaparte