Man At Work

No Sane man will dance. - Cicero

Life is brief, art is long. - Hippocrates

The painting has a life of its own. - Jackson Pollock

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

The modern work of art is a symbol. - Herbert Read

An art thief is a man who takes pictures. - George Carlin

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

Life is the art of drawing without an eraser. - John Gardner

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

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

The art of a people is a true mirror to their minds. - Jawaharlal Nehru

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

Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough. - Groucho Marx

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture. - Elvis Costello

Dancing can reveal all the mystery that music conceals. - Charles Baudelaire

A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art. - Paul Cezanne

Art is the demonstration that the ordinary is extraordinary. - Amedee Ozenfant

I'm due at the ballet. They're doin' Swoon Lake. - Archie Bunker

We need a leader that wrote "The Art of the Deal". - Donald Trump

Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire. - Steven Wright

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting. - Sun Tzu

If you're already walking on thin ice, you might as well dance. - Proverb

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

If I could tell you what it meant, there would be no point in dancing it. - Isadora Duncan

It is through art, and through art only, that we can realize our perfection. - Oscar Wilde

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

Italy is the home of art and swindling; home of religion and moral rottenness. - Mark Twain

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

Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. - Gunter Grass

There's no one way to dance. And that's kind of my philosophy about everything. - Ellen Degeneres

Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experience treacherous, judgment difficult. - Hypocrites

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

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

The art of art, the glory of expression, and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity. - Walt Whitman

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance. - e e cummings

The minute there's a map, there is no art. Paint by numbers is not art. Paint by numbers is a mechanical activity. - Seth Godin

We've never been cool, we're hot. Irish people are Italians who can't dress, Jamaicans who can't dance. - Bono

It's tangible, it's solid, it's beautiful. It's artistic, from my standpoint, and I just love real estate. - Donald Trump

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

Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor. - Andre Gide