Hand Carved Dresser

Art is the most beautiful of lies. - Claude Debussy

Art is the signature of civilizations. - Beverly Sills

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

It costs nothing to encourage an artist. - Kevin Smith

What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art. - Augustus Saint-Gaudens

Maintenance is as much art as it is science. - Unknown

Chop your own wood, and it will warm you twice. - Henry Ford

I teach the art of turning anguish into delight. - Georges Bataille

File Clerk: One skilled in the art of concealment - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Magic: An art of converting superstition into coin - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

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

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

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

Dance is a delicate balance between perfection and beauty. - Unknown

In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport. - Julia Child

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

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

Boat: A hole in the water surrounded by wood into which one pours money - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

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

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance. - George Bernard Shaw

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

A lot of Thanksgiving days have been ruined by not carving the turkey in the kitchen. - Kin Hubbard

Transplanting the ballet to the United States is like trying to raise a palm tree in Dakota. - Lincoln Kirsten

Copy nature and you infringe on the work of our Lord. Interpret nature and you are an artist. - Jacques Lipchitz

The ballet toe shoe is one of the few instruments of torture to survive intact into our time. - Unknown

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

Liability: 1. The art of convincing others of your innocence; 2. A talent for telling untruths. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music, no choreography, and the dancers hit each other. - Jack Handey

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

Because I'm an artist, I can't ever consider myself a nihilist, so I suppose I'm optimistic. - Marilyn Manson

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

Dance as if no one's watching, sing as if no one's listening, and live everyday as if it were your last. - Irish Proverb

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

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other. - Voltaire

An intellectual is a man who says a simple thing in a difficult way; an artist is a man who says a difficult thing in a simple way. - Charles Bukowski

Who's judging American Idol? Paula Abdul? Paula Abdul judging a singing contest is like Christopher Reeve judging a dance contest. - George Carlin

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

People ask about art and commercialism. I think that if someone tries to sell their work at a high price, that is the wrong way of doing it. - Yayoi Kusama

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

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