Creative Vandalism

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

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

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

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

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

The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery. - Francis Bacon

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

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

Talking about music is like dancing about architecture. - Steve Martin

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. - Pablo Picasso

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

Opportunity dances with those who are already on the dance floor. - Jackson Brown

Riding: The art of keeping a horse between yourself and the ground - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

It is a symbol of Irish art. The cracked looking-glass of a servant. - James Joyce

Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it. - Robert Motherwell

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

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

Let your life lightly dance on the edges of time, like dew on the tip of a leaf. - Unknown

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

Diplomacy is the art of saying, "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock. - Will Rogers

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

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

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

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. - Oscar Wilde

Copy nature and you infringe on the work of our Lord. Interpret nature and you are an artist. - Jacques Lipchitz

In my house on the ceilings I have paintings of the rooms above, so I never have to go upstairs. - Steven Wright

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

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

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece. - Ludwig Erhard

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

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

Work like you don't need the money, dance like no one is watching, and love like you've never been hurt. - Mark Twain

Art is made to disturb. Science reassures. There is only one valuable thin in art: the thing you cannot explain. - Georges Braque

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

If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that. - John Lennon

Toy Soldiers was my introduction to film. I certainly didn't think I was doing art by any stretch of the imagination. - Tim Robbins

The biggest thing separating people from their artistic ambitions is not a lack of talent. It's the lack of a deadline. - Chris Baty

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

An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation. - Joseph Conrad