Dancing Tree

Life is brief, art is long. - Hippocrates

Photographing a cake can be art. - Irving Penn

History develops, art stands still. - E.M. Forster

My family tree could use some pruning. - Unknown

Art is anything you can get away with. - Marshall McLuhan

The human body is the best work of art. - Jess C. Scott

Logic is neither science nor an art, but a dodge. - Benjamin Jowett

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home. - Twyla Tharp

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth. - Ludwig Borne

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

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

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

A really well made buttonhole is the only link between art and nature. - Oscar Wilde

Our separation from each other is an optical illusion of consciousness. - Albert Einstein

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

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

The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now. - Chinese Proverb

Life beats down and crushes the soul, but art reminds you that you have one. - Stella Adler

To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine. - Henry Ward Beecher

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

Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal. - Robert Louis Stevenson

Oh, if it be to choose and call thee mine, love, thou art every day my Valentine! - Thomas Hood

Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on. - Robert Frost

The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them. - Bernard M Baruch

It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art. - Oscar Wilde

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

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

Anyone who thinks the art of conversation is dead ought to tell a child to go to bed. - Robert Gallagher

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

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

It's amazing what you can do with an E in A-Level art, a twisted imagination and a chainsaw. - Damien Hirst

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. - Aristotle

The illusion that the times that were are better than those that are has probably pervaded all ages. - Horace Greeley

Why pay money to have your family tree traced; go into politics and your opponents will do it for you. - Unknown

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

Confidence, like art, never comes from having all the answers; it comes from being open to all the questions. - Earl Gray Stevens

It's in the democratic citizen's nature to be like a leaf that doesn't believe in the tree it's part of. - David Foster Wallace

When it began, cubism was a sort of analysis, which was no more painting than the description of physical phenomena was physics. - Juan Gris

Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid. - Albert Einstein

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