Pencil Shavings

Life calls the tune, we dance. - John Galsworthy

A great nation deserves great art. - Art Delage

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

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

Dance is the hidden language of the soul. - Martha Graham

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

What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art. - Augustus Saint-Gaudens

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

Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing. - Robert Benchley

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

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

If the #2 pencil is the most popular, why is it still #2? - George Carlin

I'm due at the ballet. They're doin' Swoon Lake. - Archie Bunker

The one thing that can solve most of our problems is dancing. - James Brown

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

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

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

The art challenges the technology, and the technology inspires the art. - John Lasseter

The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much. - William Hazlitt

Dance isn't something that can be explained in words; it has to be danced. - Paige Arden

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

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

The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity. - Andre Gide

Anyone who thinks the art of conversation is dead ought to tell a child to go to bed. - Robert Gallagher

The truest expression of a people is in its dance and in its music. Bodies never lie. - Agnes De Mille

There's no one way to dance. And that's kind of my philosophy about everything. - Ellen Degeneres

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

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

Writing is very much a playground - an artistic playground. It's the most fun thing I do. - Shania Twain

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

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

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece. - Ludwig Erhard

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. - John Kenneth Galbraith

The minute there's a map, there is no art. Paint by numbers is not art. Paint by numbers is a mechanical activity. - Seth Godin

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

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

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

Art owes its origin to nature. This beautiful creation supplied the first model, while the original teacher was that divine intelligence. - Giorgio Vasari

Humility is becoming a lost art, but it's not difficult to practice. It means that you realize that others have been involved in your success. - Harvey Mackay