Shadow Box Art

Art is a revolt against fate. - Andre Malraux

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

The painting has a life of its own. - Jackson Pollock

Tea is a religion of the art of life. - Okakura Kakuzo

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

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

Logic is neither science nor an art, but a dodge. - Benjamin Jowett

An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one. - Charles Horton Cooley

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

Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough. - Groucho Marx

Life doesn't imitate art; it imitates bad television. - Woody Allen

Some men by ancestry are only the shadow of a mighty name. - Etheridge Knight

They couldn't find the artist, so they hung the picture. - Unknown

Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow. - Aesop

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting. - Sun Tzu

It is a symbol of Irish art. The cracked looking-glass of a servant. - James Joyce

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

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. - Thomas Merton

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

To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy. - Will Durant

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

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

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

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

Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you. - Walt Whitman

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

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

Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid. - Walter Winchell

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

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

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

I'm proud of my Irish heritage and culture and this show will feature a lot of Irish dancing. - Michael Flatley

The mission of the artist in an over-technologized society, is to call the old magic back to life. - Tom Robbins

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

I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast. - Viktor Frankl

Because I'm an artist, I can't ever consider myself a nihilist, so I suppose I'm optimistic. - Marilyn Manson

Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message. - Malcolm Muggeridge

Sometimes in the shadows of one's self lie the problems, and in the shadows of one's shaping lie the answers. - Ravi Zacharias

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