Graffiti Art

Dancing is silent poetry. - Simonides

Art is the signature of civilizations. - Beverly Sills

If that's art, I'm a Hottentot! - Harry S Truman

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

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

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

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

Art is not what you see, but what you make others see. - Degas

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

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

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

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art. - Susan Sontag

Dance is a delicate balance between perfection and beauty. - Unknown

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

There are short-cuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them. - Vicki Baum

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

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

I don't own a camera, so I travel with a police sketch artist. - George Carlin

Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature? - Charles Baudelaire

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

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known. - Oscar Wilde

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

All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography. - Frederico Fellini

Out of suffering comes creativity. You cannot spell painting without pain. - John Lithgow

We have art so that we do not die of reality. Reality is too much with us. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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

When other little girls wanted to be ballet dancers, I kind of wanted to be a vampire. - Angelina Jolie

I grew up with six brothers. That's how I learned to dance - waiting for the bathroom. - Bob Hope

Writing is very much a playground - an artistic playground. It's the most fun thing I do. - Shania Twain

I'm proud of my Irish heritage and culture and this show will feature a lot of Irish dancing. - Michael Flatley

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

Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself. - Bertrand Russell

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. - John Kenneth Galbraith

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

I was not naturally talented. I didn't sing, dance or act, though working around that minor detail made me inventive. - Steve Martin

You can imagine me as a kid growing up in redneck Texas with ballet shoes, tucking the violin under my arm. I had to fight my way up. - Patrick Swayze

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

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