Sidewalk Pickpocket

Dancing is silent poetry. - Simonides

Surfing is attitude dancing. - Gerry Lopez

The human body is the best work of art. - Jess C. Scott

It costs nothing to encourage an artist. - Kevin Smith

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

Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence. - Joseph Krutch

An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one. - Charles Horton Cooley

I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting. - Jackson Pollock

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

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

No one should have to dance backwards all their lives. - Jill Ruckelshaus

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

An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision. - James M Whistler

Botany: The art of insulting flowers in Greek and Latin. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Art is the demonstration that the ordinary is extraordinary. - Amedee Ozenfant

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls. - Pablo Picasso

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

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

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

There are moments when Art almost attains to the dignity of manual labor. - Oscar Wilde

If thou art a master, sometimes be blind; if a servant, sometimes be deaf. - Thomas Fuller

Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. - John Kenneth Galbraith

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

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

Propaganda is the art of persuading others of what you don't believe yourself. - Abba Eban

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease. - Voltaire

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

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul and paints his own nature into his pictures. - Henry Ward Beecher

Shopping: The fine art of acquiring things you don't need with money you don't have. - Unknown

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad. - Salvador Dali

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance. - e e cummings

In the cycle of a great civilization, the artist begins as priest, and ends as a clown or buffoon. - Malcolm Muggeridge

A creative artist works on his next composition because he was not satisfied with his previous one. - Dmitri Shostakovich

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

I could dance with you till the cows come home...
on second thought, I'll dance with the cows till you come home. - Groucho Marx

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

When it began, cubism was a sort of analysis, which was no more painting than the description of physical phenomena was physics. - Juan Gris

An intellectual is a man who says a simple thing in a difficult way; an artist is a man who says a difficult thing in a simple way. - Charles Bukowski

Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. - Donald Trump

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