Pencil Shavings

All art is quite useless. - Oscar Wilde

Art is anything you can get away with. - Marshall McLuhan

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

All great art comes from a sense of outrage. - Glenn Close

Maintenance is as much art as it is science. - Unknown

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

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

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

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

The 'Earth' without art is just 'eh'. - Unknown

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

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

The Iranians and Persians are excellent at the art of negotiation. - Donald Trump

I'm a guy who can't function well in life, but I can in art. - Woody Allen

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

A really well made buttonhole is the only link between art and nature. - Oscar Wilde

Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it. - Robert Motherwell

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

Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music. - George Carlin

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

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

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

Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experience treacherous, judgment difficult. - Hypocrites

Mathematics is the cheapest science. All one needs for mathematics is a pencil and a paper. - George Polya

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better. - Andre Gide

The ballet toe shoe is one of the few instruments of torture to survive intact into our time. - Unknown

Art is the right hand of nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men. - Friedrich Schiller

The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient, whilst Mother Nature takes care of the cure. - Voltaire

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

I'd stay away from Ecstasy: this is a drug so strong it makes white people think they can dance. - Lenny Henry

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

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

Dance as if no one's watching, sing as if no one's listening, and live everyday as if it were your last. - Irish Proverb

I could dance with you till the cows come home...
on second thought, I'll dance with the cows till you come home. - Groucho Marx

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

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing. - William James

The greatest achievement of humanity is not its works of art, science, or technology, but the recognition of its own dysfunction. - Eckhart Tolle

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

Go figure a crazy, mixed-up country where ballet outsells boxing. I wouldn't be surprised if their wrestling was on the level. - Bob Hope