Totem Pole - Live Update

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

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

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

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

Our humor turns our anger into a fine art. - Mary Kay Blakely

I'm not making art, I'm making sushi. - Masaharu Morimoto

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

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

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

Truth is simple, requiring neither study nor art. - Ammian

The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook. - William James

Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life. - Oscar Wilde

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

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

Timing has a lot to do with the outcome of a rain dance. - Unknown

Art in nature is rhythmic and has a horror of constraint. - Robert Delaunay

Mathematical genius and artistic genius touch one another. - Gosta Mittag-Leffler

You can't have all chiefs; you gotta have Indians too. - American Proverb

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

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

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

Too long they've been gettin' the short end of the totem pole. - Archie Bunker

To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy. - Will Durant

Dancing is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made. - Ted Shawn

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

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

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. - Albert Einstein

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

Psychiatry is the art of teaching people how to stand on their own two feet while reclining on couches. - Sigmund Freud

I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast. - Viktor Frankl

To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way. - E M Forster

I don't think much of a dance step where the girl looks like she was being carried out of a burning building. - Kin Hubbard

We have to prove beyond the shadow of a doubt that it is talent and training, not color, that makes a ballet dancer. - Arthur Mitchell

Despite all our toil and progress, the art of medicine still falls somewhere between trout casting and spook writing. - Ben Hecht

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

He who would learn to fly on day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other. - Voltaire

Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other. - Oscar Ameringer

Art owes its origin to nature. This beautiful creation supplied the first model, while the original teacher was that divine intelligence. - Giorgio Vasari

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