Junkyard Art

Surfing is attitude dancing. - Gerry Lopez

All of nature is God's art. - Dante

A great nation deserves great art. - Art Delage

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

Art is anything you can get away with. - Marshall McLuhan

Either dance well or quit the ballroom. - Greek Proverb

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

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

Art is either a plagiarist or a revolutionist. - Paul Gauguin

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

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

The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook. - William James

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

Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace. - Oscar Wilde

Politics is the art of controlling your environment. - Hunter S. Thompson

Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist. - Franz Liszt

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

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

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

Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory. - Oscar Wilde

Nothing burns more calories than dancing in 5-inch heels. - Ariana Grande

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

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

In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport. - Julia Child

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

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. - Thomas Merton

Anyone who says you can't see a thought simply doesn't know art. - Wynetka Ann Reynolds

The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes. - Tony Blair

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

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

Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises. - Samuel Butler

Humour is a rubber sword - it allows you to make a point without drawing blood. - Mary Hirsch

Dance till the stars come down from the rafters! Dance, Dance, Dance till you drop! - W H Auden

Anyone who thinks the art of conversation is dead ought to tell a child to go to bed. - Robert Gallagher

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

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

The dance: a minimum of explanation, a minimum of anecdotes, and a maximum of sensations. - Maurice Bejart

A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left. - Alexander Pope

What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying. - Oscar Wilde

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist. - Oscar Wilde

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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

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

If we're not willing to settle for junk living, we certainly shouldn't settle for junk food. - Sally Edwards

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

Art is a human activity having for its purpose the transmission to others of the highest and best feelings. - Leo Tolstoy

Just as the bird sings or the butterfly soars, because it is his natural characteristic, so the artist works. - Alma Gluck

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

I went to the museum where they had all the heads and arms from the statues that are in all the other museums. - Steven Wright

To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way. - E M Forster

I feel strongly that the visual arts are of vast importance. Of course I could be prejudiced. I am a visual art. - Kermit The Frog

Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and acitivty of man's nature. - Robert South

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

The art of Biography
Is different from Geography.
Geography is about maps,
But Biography is about chaps. - G K Chesterton

Toy Soldiers was my introduction to film. I certainly didn't think I was doing art by any stretch of the imagination. - Tim Robbins

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

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

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

Some men's ambition is art, some men's ambition is fame, some men's ambition is gold. My ambition is the souls of men. - William Booth

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

My wife was a make-up artist, and she's a total product junkie. Our bathroom is packed full of lotions and potions so I end up trying them out. - Robert Carlyle