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

Politics is the art of the possible. - Otto von Bismarck

If that's art, I'm a Hottentot! - Harry S Truman

The true art of memory is the art of attention. - Samuel Johnson

Oregano: The ancient Italian art of pizza folding - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

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

Magic: An art of converting superstition into coin - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Ballet is good, because it makes you stand up tall. - Carine Roitfeld

The art of a people is a true mirror to their minds. - Jawaharlal Nehru

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

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

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery. - Mark Van Doren

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday. - Don Marquis

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

We need a leader that wrote "The Art of the Deal". - Donald Trump

Advertising is the greatest art form of the twentieth century. - Marshall McLuhan

Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability. - William Osler

Anyone who says you can't see a thought simply doesn't know art. - Wynetka Ann Reynolds

Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. - John Kenneth Galbraith

We dance in a circle and suppose, while the secret sits in the middle and knows. - Robert Frost

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

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

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

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

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

My love life is terrible. The last time I was inside a woman was when I visited the Statue of Liberty. - Woody Allen

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

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

Art is a human activity having for its purpose the transmission to others of the highest and best feelings. - Leo Tolstoy

Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned. - George Balanchine

What's the earth with all its art, verse, music, worth -
Compared with love, found, gained, and kept? - Robert Browning

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

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

Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting, or living itself, which is the greatest art of all. - Ray Bradbury

When it began, cubism was a sort of analysis, which was no more painting than the description of physical phenomena was physics. - Juan Gris

The birch-bark canoe of the savage seems to me one of the most beautiful and perfect things of the kind constructed by human art. - William C. Bryant

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

People ask about art and commercialism. I think that if someone tries to sell their work at a high price, that is the wrong way of doing it. - Yayoi Kusama

The physician should look upon the patient as a besieged city and try to rescue him with every means that art and science place at his command. - Alexander of Tralles