Shadow Box Art

No Sane man will dance. - Cicero

All art is quite useless. - Oscar Wilde

Art is a revolt against fate. - Andre Malraux

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

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

We can dance on pinheads till the cows come home. - Alastair Campbell

To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature. - August Rodin

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

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

Mathematical genius and artistic genius touch one another. - Gosta Mittag-Leffler

After all, it's only moving shadows on a silver screen. - Richard Fleischer

The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection. - Mechelangelo di Lodovico

The art of mothering is to teach the art of living to children. - Elaine Heffner

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

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

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul. - Joseph Addison

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

The art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on. - Henry H Ellis

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

All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography. - Frederico Fellini

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

It was so hot today I saw a pigeon walking in the shadow of Orson Welles. - Johnny Carson

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

I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough? - Vincent van Gogh

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. - Emile Zola

Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work. - Seth Godin

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

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

The most potent and sacred command which can be laid upon any artist is the command: wait. - Iris Murdoch

I grew up with six brothers. That's how I learned to dance - waiting for the bathroom. - Bob Hope

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

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

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist. - Oscar Wilde

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

You can't dance at two weddings at the same time; nor can you sit on two horses with one behind. - Yiddish Proverb

If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that. - John Lennon

We've never been cool, we're hot. Irish people are Italians who can't dress, Jamaicans who can't dance. - Bono

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

Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other. - Oscar Ameringer

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