Driftwood Lion

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

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

Art is the signature of civilizations. - Beverly Sills

The human body is the best work of art. - Jess C. Scott

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

We have art to save ourselves from the truth. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence. - Joseph Krutch

Truth is simple, requiring neither study nor art. - Ammian

Ballet is good, because it makes you stand up tall. - Carine Roitfeld

Politics is the art of controlling your environment. - Hunter S. Thompson

The art of a people is a true mirror to their minds. - Jawaharlal Nehru

Dancing: The Highest Intelligence in the Freest Body. - Isadora Duncan

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

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

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday. - Don Marquis

Art is the demonstration that the ordinary is extraordinary. - Amedee Ozenfant

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

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

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

If thou art a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf. - Thomas Fuller

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

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

Dancing is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made. - Ted Shawn

I love contemporary art, although I wouldn't want a pickled shark in my house. - Bruno Tonioli

As the sculptor devotes himself to wood and stone, I would devote myself to my soul. - Toyohiko Kagawa

The man who is ostentatious of his modesty is twin to the statue that wears a fig-leaf. - Mark Twain

Before enlightenment: chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment: chop wood, carry water. - Zen Buddhist Saying

Vegetarians are cool. All I eat are vegetarians, except for the occasional mountain lion steak. - Ted Nugent

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad. - Salvador Dali

I like to put on a wig or a fake mustache and do something silly with friends, do a little dance. - Tom Lenk

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. - Albert Einstein

'Tis not always in a physician's power to cure the sick; at times the disease is stronger than trained art. - Ovid

It's tangible, it's solid, it's beautiful. It's artistic, from my standpoint, and I just love real estate. - Donald Trump

I don't want to be the oldest performer in captivity. I don't want to look like a little old man dancing out there. - Fred Astaire

If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him. - John F Kennedy

Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. - Donald Trump

Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor. - Andre Gide

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

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival. - C S Lewis

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