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The secret of life is in art. - Oscar Wilde

Art is a house that tries to be haunted. - Emily Dickinson

Dance can give the inarticulate a voice. - Pamela Brown

What is this, an audience or an oil painting? - Milton Berle

We can choose to hate the rain or dance in it. - Joan Marques

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

Logic is neither science nor an art, but a dodge. - Benjamin Jowett

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

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

Art is not what you see, but what you make others see. - Degas

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

No one should have to dance backwards all their lives. - Jill Ruckelshaus

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

Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory. - Oscar Wilde

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

Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between. - David Letterman

We're fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance. - Japanese Proverb

Tact is the art of convincing people that they know more than you do. - Raymond Mortimer

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

There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome. - Andre Gide

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

The art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on. - Henry H Ellis

The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes. - Tony Blair

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

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

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

The man who is ostentatious of his modesty is twin to the statue that wears a fig-leaf. - Mark Twain

I grew up with six brothers. That's how I learned to dance - waiting for the bathroom. - Bob Hope

Transplanting the ballet to the United States is like trying to raise a palm tree in Dakota. - Lincoln Kirsten

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

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance. - e e cummings

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

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

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

I don't want to be the oldest performer in captivity. I don't want to look like a little old man dancing out there. - Fred Astaire

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

Logic: the art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. - Ambrose Bierce

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

If it's flipping hamburgers at McDonald's, be the best hamburger flipper in the world. Whatever it is you do you have to master your craft. - Snoop Dogg