Happy Centipede

No Sane man will dance. - Cicero

Art is the signature of civilizations. - Beverly Sills

The artist in me cries out for design. - Robert Frost

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

A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing. - Clive James

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

Good work rarely sells. I believe this of any art. - Arthur W Pinero

The art of a people is a true mirror to their minds. - Jawaharlal Nehru

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

The art of being a slave is to rule one's master. - Diogenes

The immature artist imitates. The mature artist steals. - Lionel Trilling

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

A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art. - Paul Cezanne

Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire. - Steven Wright

The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection. - Mechelangelo di Lodovico

The art of mothering is to teach the art of living to children. - Elaine Heffner

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

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

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

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

The great art of life is sensation; to feel that we exist, even in pain. - Lord Byron

The truest expression of a people is in its dance and in its music. Bodies never lie. - Agnes De Mille

I should rather men ask why no statue has been erected in my honour, than why one has. - Marcus Porcius Cato

The most potent and sacred command which can be laid upon any artist is the command: wait. - Iris Murdoch

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

I have discovered the art of fooling diplomats. I speak the truth, and they never believe me. - Camillo Di Cavour

Art is the right hand of nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men. - Friedrich Schiller

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

I like to put on a wig or a fake mustache and do something silly with friends, do a little dance. - Tom Lenk

We ought to dance with rapture that we might be alive... and part of the living, incarnate cosmos. - D.H. Lawrence

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

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

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

A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist. - R. Buckminster Fuller

The minute there's a map, there is no art. Paint by numbers is not art. Paint by numbers is a mechanical activity. - Seth Godin

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

Logic: the art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. - Ambrose Bierce

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

Drink and dance and laugh and lie,
Love, the reeling midnight through,
For tomorrow we shall die!
(But, alas, we never do.) - Dorothy Parker