Crocodile Floor

Art is a revolt against fate. - Andre Malraux

The painting has a life of its own. - Jackson Pollock

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

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

All great art comes from a sense of outrage. - Glenn Close

Inflation: everyone's illusion of wealth - Unknown

We have art to save ourselves from the truth. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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

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

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

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

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

The art of communication is the language of leadership. - James Humes

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

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

Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art. - Claude Debussy

One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art. - Oscar Wilde

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

You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on. - Dean Martin

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

Never say never because limits, like fears, are often just an illusion. - Michael Jordan

The art of conversation is the art of hearing as well as of being heard. - William Hazlitt

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

The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you. - Oscar Wilde

Jealousy is the art of counting someone else's blessings instead of your own. - Unknown

Oh, if it be to choose and call thee mine, love, thou art every day my Valentine! - Thomas Hood

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

I love contemporary art, although I wouldn't want a pickled shark in my house. - Bruno Tonioli

The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions which have been hidden by the answers. - James Baldwin

A gun is not a weapon, it’s a tool, like a hammer or a screwdriver or an alligator. - Homer Simpson

I don't work out. If God wanted us to bend over, he'd put diamonds on the floor. - Joan Rivers

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art. - Eleanor Roosevelt

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

The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic slice of truth, wisdom, is dying out. - Walter Benjamin

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

Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right. - Aldous Huxley

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

Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message. - Malcolm Muggeridge

People ask about art and commercialism. I think that if someone tries to sell their work at a high price, that is the wrong way of doing it. - Yayoi Kusama

The universe lies before you on the floor, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your mind. From this voyage no one returns poor or weary. - Agnes de Mille