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Dancing is silent poetry. - Simonides

The modern work of art is a symbol. - Herbert Read

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

Art is a house that tries to be haunted. - Emily Dickinson

An art thief is a man who takes pictures. - George Carlin

Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace. - Oscar Wilde

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

In life as in dance: Grace glides on blistered feet. - Alice Abrams

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

Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist. - Franz Liszt

Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art. - Paul Cezanne

Unemployment insurance is a pre-paid vacation for freeloaders. - Ronald Reagan

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

We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master. - Ernest Hemingway

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

The role of the artist today is to defend feeling against the machine. - Marty Rubin

In the haunted house of life, art is the only stair that doesn't creak. - Tom Robbins

I don't want people who want to dance; I want people who have to dance. - George Balanchine

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

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

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. - Scott Adams

The dance: a minimum of explanation, a minimum of anecdotes, and a maximum of sensations. - Maurice Bejart

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. - Oscar Wilde

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

I actually lost 90 pounds over the course of 15 months in order to save money on life insurance. - Derek Kilmer

We ought to dance with rapture that we might be alive... and part of the living, incarnate cosmos. - D.H. Lawrence

Art is a human activity having for its purpose the transmission to others of the highest and best feelings. - Leo Tolstoy

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

Build. Destroy. Rebuild. I've mastered the art of bouncing back. Now to master the art of not having to. - Unknown

I went to the museum where they had all the heads and arms from the statues that are in all the other museums. - Steven Wright

That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward. - Ernest Hemingway

Toy Soldiers was my introduction to film. I certainly didn't think I was doing art by any stretch of the imagination. - Tim Robbins

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy. - Groucho Marx

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

The greatest achievement of humanity is not its works of art, science, or technology, but the recognition of its own dysfunction. - Eckhart Tolle

An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation. - Joseph Conrad

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

Art is the window to man's soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see the man within. - Claudia Johnson