Pencil Shavings

Surfing is attitude dancing. - Gerry Lopez

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

Vision is the art of seeing things invisible. - Jonathan Swift

I'm not making art, I'm making sushi. - Masaharu Morimoto

The art of love is largely the art of persistence. - Albert Ellis

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

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

Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art. - Claude Debussy

Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire. - Steven Wright

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

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

Pickup artist: An artist whose specialty is painting pictures of trucks - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

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

There are moments when Art almost attains to the dignity of manual labor. - Oscar Wilde

Out of suffering comes creativity. You cannot spell painting without pain. - John Lithgow

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance. - George Bernard Shaw

To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine. - Henry Ward Beecher

Jealousy is the art of counting someone else's blessings instead of your own. - Unknown

The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them. - Bernard M Baruch

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

Prophecy: The art and practice of selling one's credibility for future delivery. - Ambrose Bierce

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. - Albert Einstein

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

A half finished shawl left on the coffee table isn't a mess; it's an object of art. - Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

I have a wonderful make-up crew. They're the same people restoring the Statue of Liberty. - Bob Hope

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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

Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it. - Dwight D Eisenhower

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

Boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music, no choreography, and the dancers hit each other. - Jack Handey

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

'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.' - W H Auden

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

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

Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and acitivty of man's nature. - Robert South

Outcomes rarely turn on grand gestures or the art of the deal, but on whether you've sent someone a thank-you note. - Bernie Brillstein

The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind. - Paracelsus

Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen. - Pablo Picasso

Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of words. - Franz Liszt

I adore art. When I am alone with my notes, my heart pounds and the tears stream from my eyes, and my emotion and my joys are too much to bear. - Guiseppe Verdi