Better Than Concrete

Art is a revolt against fate. - Andre Malraux

Either dance well or quit the ballroom. - Greek Proverb

I should not believe in a God who does not dance. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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

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

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery. - Mark Van Doren

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

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing. - Marcus Aurelius

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

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

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday. - Don Marquis

Life doesn't imitate art; it imitates bad television. - Woody Allen

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

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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

Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between. - David Letterman

We're fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance. - Japanese Proverb

Oratory is the art of making a loud noise seem like a deep thought. - American Proverb

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

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

Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart go together. - John Ruskin

The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much. - William Hazlitt

The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them. - Bernard M Baruch

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

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

The art of art, the glory of expression, and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity. - Walt Whitman

A blind man can make art if what is in his mind can be passed to another mind in some tangible form. - Sol LeWitt

Never pay attention to what critics say. Remember, a statue has never been set up in honor of a critic. - Jean Sibelius

Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted in spite of your changing moods. - C S Lewis

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. - Albert Einstein

Confidence, like art, never comes from having all the answers; it comes from being open to all the questions. - Earl Gray Stevens

Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned. - George Balanchine

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

The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind. - Paracelsus

The greatest achievement of humanity is not its works of art, science, or technology, but the recognition of its own dysfunction. - Eckhart Tolle

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other. - Voltaire

Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor. - Andre Gide

Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of words. - Franz Liszt

If it's flipping hamburgers at McDonald's, be the best hamburger flipper in the world. Whatever it is you do you have to master your craft. - Snoop Dogg