Totem Pole - Live Update

No Sane man will dance. - Cicero

Art is a revolt against fate. - Andre Malraux

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

All dancing girls are nineteen years old. - Japanese Proverb

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

What is this, an audience or an oil painting? - Milton Berle

The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity. - Douglas Horton

Love the art in yourself, not yourself in the art. - Constantin Stanislavski

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

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

Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity. - Yoko Ono

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

The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure. - Dale Carnegie

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

Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. - Aristotle

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

The art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on. - Henry H Ellis

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

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

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

Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises. - Samuel Butler

Perspective is to painting what the bridle is to the horse, the rudder to a ship. - Leonardo da Vinci

Dance till the stars come down from the rafters! Dance, Dance, Dance till you drop! - W H Auden

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

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

Football isn't a contact sport; it's a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport. - Vince Lombardi

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

The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic slice of truth, wisdom, is dying out. - Walter Benjamin

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

You can't dance at two weddings at the same time; nor can you sit on two horses with one behind. - Yiddish Proverb

As a child, I was subjected to a lot of spaghetti Westerns and hated them. I wanted the Indians to win. - Kara Walker

I went to the museum where they had all the heads and arms from the statues that are in all the other museums. - Steven Wright

What's the earth with all its art, verse, music, worth -
Compared with love, found, gained, and kept? - Robert Browning

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

I feel strongly that the visual arts are of vast importance. Of course I could be prejudiced. I am a visual art. - Kermit The Frog

Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting, or living itself, which is the greatest art of all. - Ray Bradbury

Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. - Donald Trump

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

Humility is becoming a lost art, but it's not difficult to practice. It means that you realize that others have been involved in your success. - Harvey Mackay

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