Man At Work

Art is a revolt against fate. - Andre Malraux

Art is the signature of civilizations. - Beverly Sills

If that's art, I'm a Hottentot! - Harry S Truman

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

All dancing girls are nineteen years old. - Japanese Proverb

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

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

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

Ballet is good, because it makes you stand up tall. - Carine Roitfeld

No one should have to dance backwards all their lives. - Jill Ruckelshaus

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

We're fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance. - Japanese Proverb

Life is too short to eat vanilla ice cream and dance with boring men. - Unknown

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

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known. - Oscar Wilde

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

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

Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. - John Kenneth Galbraith

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself. - Mihkail Baryshnikov

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better. - Andre Gide

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

My love life is terrible. The last time I was inside a woman was when I visited the Statue of Liberty. - Woody Allen

It is our art that has an opportunity to leave a footprint in the sand. They don't wrap fish in our work. - Hugh N Jacobsen

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

'Tis not always in a physician's power to cure the sick; at times the disease is stronger than trained art. - Ovid

I could dance with you till the cows come home...
on second thought, I'll dance with the cows till you come home. - Groucho Marx

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

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy. - Groucho Marx

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

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing. - Clive James

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