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Art is a revolt against fate. - Andre Malraux

Politics is the art of the possible. - Otto von Bismarck

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

A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing. - Clive James

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

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

Can't act. Can sing. Balding. Can dance a little. - MGM Executive

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

Art is making something out of nothing and selling it. - Frank Zappa

The art of government is the organization of idolatry. - George Bernard Shaw

I would believe only in a God that knows how to dance. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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

Painting is stronger than me, it makes me do its bidding. - Pablo Picasso

What a strange illusion to suppose that beauty is goodness. - Leo Tolstoy

We need a leader that wrote "The Art of the Deal". - Donald Trump

Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between. - David Letterman

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

Illusion is the dust the devil throws in the eyes of the foolish. - Minna Antrim

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

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

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

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

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

The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you. - Oscar Wilde

The practice of art isn't to make a living. It's to make your soul grow. - Kurt Vonnegut

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

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

Shopping: The fine art of acquiring things you don't need with money you don't have. - Unknown

What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying. - Oscar Wilde

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

It's amazing what you can do with an E in A-Level art, a twisted imagination and a chainsaw. - Damien Hirst

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. - Aristotle

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

The pumpkin hearing, "Let's carve and scoop,"
Ran fast as he could, leaving pumpkin poop. - Shirley Thomas

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

The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up. - Jay Leno

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living. - Frederic Amiel

He who would learn to fly on day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

We all know that art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. - Pablo Picasso

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