Monday Lisa

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

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

All great art comes from a sense of outrage. - Glenn Close

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

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

Love the art in yourself, not yourself in the art. - Constantin Stanislavski

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

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery. - Mark Van Doren

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

Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art. - F Scott Fitzgerald

Timing has a lot to do with the outcome of a rain dance. - Unknown

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art. - Susan Sontag

Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory. - Oscar Wilde

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

The art of mothering is to teach the art of living to children. - Elaine Heffner

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

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

Anyone who says you can't see a thought simply doesn't know art. - Wynetka Ann Reynolds

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

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

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

The trouble with dancing naked is that not everything stops when the music does. - Unknown

Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work. - Seth Godin

A half finished shawl left on the coffee table isn't a mess; it's an object of art. - Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

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

In my house on the ceilings I have paintings of the rooms above, so I never have to go upstairs. - Steven Wright

The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient, whilst Mother Nature takes care of the cure. - Voltaire

It's not your painting anymore. It stopped being your painting the moment that you finished it. - Jeff Melvoin

Just as the bird sings or the butterfly soars, because it is his natural characteristic, so the artist works. - Alma Gluck

Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned. - George Balanchine

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

Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and acitivty of man's nature. - Robert South

The art of Biography
Is different from Geography.
Geography is about maps,
But Biography is about chaps. - G K Chesterton

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

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

Logic: the art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. - Ambrose Bierce

Some men's ambition is art, some men's ambition is fame, some men's ambition is gold. My ambition is the souls of men. - William Booth

If it's flipping hamburgers at McDonald's, be the best hamburger flipper in the world. Whatever it is you do you have to master your craft. - Snoop Dogg

My wife was a make-up artist, and she's a total product junkie. Our bathroom is packed full of lotions and potions so I end up trying them out. - Robert Carlyle