Creative Vandalism

Dust thou art, to dust returnest. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

All dancing girls are nineteen years old. - Japanese Proverb

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

Art is making something out of nothing and selling it. - Frank Zappa

The art of government is the organization of idolatry. - George Bernard Shaw

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

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

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

One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art. - Oscar Wilde

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. - Oscar Wilde

The one thing that can solve most of our problems is dancing. - James Brown

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

The Iranians and Persians are excellent at the art of negotiation. - Donald Trump

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

I'm a guy who can't function well in life, but I can in art. - Woody Allen

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

In an artist's life, death is perhaps not the most difficult thing. - Vincent van Gogh

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

An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have. - Andy Warhol

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

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

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

So the vandals, having wrested Libya from the Romans in this way, made it their own. - Procopius

The man who is ostentatious of his modesty is twin to the statue that wears a fig-leaf. - Mark Twain

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature but beautiful old people are works of art. - Unknown

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

Transplanting the ballet to the United States is like trying to raise a palm tree in Dakota. - Lincoln Kirsten

What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying. - Oscar Wilde

No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time. It is just that the others are behind the time. - Martha Graham

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass; it's about learning to dance in the rain. - Vivian Greene

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

Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings. - Vicki Baum

That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward. - Ernest Hemingway

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

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

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

Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen. - Pablo Picasso

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

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies. - Napoleon Bonaparte