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All art is quite useless. - Oscar Wilde

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

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

Making sushi is an art, and experience is everything. - Nobu Matsuhisa

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

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

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. - Pablo Picasso

Life doesn't imitate art; it imitates bad television. - Woody Allen

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

Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible sun within us. - Sir Thomas Brown

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

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

The great art of life is sensation; to feel that we exist, even in pain. - Lord Byron

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

Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing. - Ralph Richardson

An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have. - Andy Warhol

Grantartica: The cold, isolated place where art companies dwell without funding - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Oh, if it be to choose and call thee mine, love, thou art every day my Valentine! - Thomas Hood

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

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

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

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul and paints his own nature into his pictures. - Henry Ward Beecher

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

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

I have discovered the art of fooling diplomats. I speak the truth, and they never believe me. - Camillo Di Cavour

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

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

I'm proud of my Irish heritage and culture and this show will feature a lot of Irish dancing. - Michael Flatley

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

The mission of the artist in an over-technologized society, is to call the old magic back to life. - Tom Robbins

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

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

Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted in spite of your changing moods. - C S Lewis

Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself. - Bertrand Russell

Just as the bird sings or the butterfly soars, because it is his natural characteristic, so the artist works. - Alma Gluck

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

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

Who's judging American Idol? Paula Abdul? Paula Abdul judging a singing contest is like Christopher Reeve judging a dance contest. - George Carlin

To have a curable illness and to leave it untreated except for prayer is like sticking your hand in a fire and asking God to remove the flame. - Sandra L. Douglas