Can Art

One does not marry art. One ravishes it. - Edgar Degas

Any idealism is a proper subject for art. - Lafcadio Hearn

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

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

We can choose to hate the rain or dance in it. - Joan Marques

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

We can dance on pinheads till the cows come home. - Alastair Campbell

The only time I feel alive is when I'm painting. - Andy Warhol

Dance first. Think later. It's the natural order. - Samuel Beckett

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

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing. - Marcus Aurelius

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

The art of communication is the language of leadership. - James Humes

One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art. - Oscar Wilde

Dancing is like bank robbery - it takes split second timing. - Twyla Tharp

Oratory is the art of making a loud noise seem like a deep thought. - American Proverb

It is a symbol of Irish art. The cracked looking-glass of a servant. - James Joyce

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

A painting is never finished — it simply stops in interesting places. - Paul Gardner

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

Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music. - George Carlin

Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music. - William Stafford

You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul. - George Bernard Shaw

We dance in a circle and suppose, while the secret sits in the middle and knows. - Robert Frost

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease. - Voltaire

The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity. - Andre Gide

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

Prophecy: The art and practice of selling one's credibility for future delivery. - Ambrose Bierce

Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it. - Laurence J Peter

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

I'd stay away from Ecstasy: this is a drug so strong it makes white people think they can dance. - Lenny Henry

Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself. - Bertrand Russell

Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching. - Satchel Paige

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

To live is to be musical, starting with the blood dancing in your veins. Everything living has a rhythm. Do you feel your music? - Michael Jackson

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

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

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