Below Ground

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

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

The true art of memory is the art of attention. - Samuel Johnson

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

The art of love is largely the art of persistence. - Albert Ellis

Dance first. Think later. It's the natural order. - Samuel Beckett

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

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

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

Mathematical genius and artistic genius touch one another. - Gosta Mittag-Leffler

Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire. - Steven Wright

The one thing that can solve most of our problems is dancing. - James Brown

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

Opportunity dances with those who are already on the dance floor. - Jackson Brown

Art doesn't reproduce the visible but rather makes it visible. - Paul Klee

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

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

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

The great art of life is sensation; to feel that we exist, even in pain. - Lord Byron

I don't want people who want to dance; I want people who have to dance. - George Balanchine

Dance isn't something that can be explained in words; it has to be danced. - Paige Arden

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

I should rather men ask why no statue has been erected in my honour, than why one has. - Marcus Porcius Cato

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. - Oscar Wilde

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

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

We ought to dance with rapture that we might be alive... and part of the living, incarnate cosmos. - D.H. Lawrence

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

Psychiatry is the art of teaching people how to stand on their own two feet while reclining on couches. - Sigmund Freud

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

It is our art that has an opportunity to leave a footprint in the sand. They don't wrap fish in our work. - Hugh N Jacobsen

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

That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward. - Ernest Hemingway

Outcomes rarely turn on grand gestures or the art of the deal, but on whether you've sent someone a thank-you note. - Bernie Brillstein

As an experienced artist, I carry my work like a secret pregnancy. I am always aware of inner life and the need to protect it. - Julia Cameron

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

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing. - William James

An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation. - Joseph Conrad

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

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