Coming Up Roses

Art is the most beautiful of lies. - Claude Debussy

Wrestling is ballet with violence. - Jesse Ventura

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

What an artist the world is losing in me. - Nero

Art is either a plagiarist or a revolutionist. - Paul Gauguin

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

I should not believe in a God who does not dance. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

You can dance anywhere, even if only in your heart. - Unknown

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

The 'Earth' without art is just 'eh'. - Unknown

The art of being a slave is to rule one's master. - Diogenes

I'll tell you how the sun rose - a ribbon at a time. - Emily Dickinson

It is by believing in roses that one brings them to bloom. - French Proverb

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. - Albert Einstein

The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure. - Dale Carnegie

I don't own a camera, so I travel with a police sketch artist. - George Carlin

The fine art of preparing sushi is something that you watch and learn. - Nobu Matsuhisa

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

The Rose Bowl is the only bowl I've ever seen that I didn't have to clean. - Erma Bombeck

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

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. - George Bernard Shaw

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

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge. - Daniel J. Boorstin

After you cut off a person's nose there is no point in giving him a rose to smell. - Ravi Zacharias

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. - Albert Einstein

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better. - Andre Gide

I have discovered the art of fooling diplomats. I speak the truth, and they never believe me. - Camillo Di Cavour

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

As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round. - Ben Hogan

In the cycle of a great civilization, the artist begins as priest, and ends as a clown or buffoon. - Malcolm Muggeridge

Never pay attention to what critics say. Remember, a statue has never been set up in honor of a critic. - Jean Sibelius

It is our art that has an opportunity to leave a footprint in the sand. They don't wrap fish in our work. - Hugh N Jacobsen

A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist. - R. Buckminster Fuller

Preaching is not the art of making a sermon and delivering it. Preaching is the art of making a preacher and delivering him. - Bishop Quayle

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

A rose can say "I love you",
Orchids can enthrall,
But a weed bouquet in a chubby fist,
Yes, that says it all. - Unknown

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

The only happy artist is a dead artist, because only then you can't change. After I die, I'll probably come back as a paintbrush. - Sylvester Stallone

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