Below Ground

No Sane man will dance. - Cicero

History develops, art stands still. - E.M. Forster

Tea is a religion of the art of life. - Okakura Kakuzo

If that's art, I'm a Hottentot! - Harry S Truman

Dance is the hidden language of the soul. - Martha Graham

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

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

We can dance on pinheads till the cows come home. - Alastair Campbell

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Magic: An art of converting superstition into coin - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art. - F Scott Fitzgerald

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

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

The new job of art is to sit on the wall and get more expensive. - Robert Hughes

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

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

We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master. - Ernest Hemingway

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

It is through art, and through art only, that we can realize our perfection. - Oscar Wilde

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance. - George Bernard Shaw

Italy is the home of art and swindling; home of religion and moral rottenness. - Mark Twain

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

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order. - Alfred N Whitehead

No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time. It is just that the others are behind the time. - Martha Graham

The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient, whilst Mother Nature takes care of the cure. - Voltaire

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

I'd stay away from Ecstasy: this is a drug so strong it makes white people think they can dance. - Lenny Henry

You can't dance at two weddings at the same time; nor can you sit on two horses with one behind. - Yiddish Proverb

I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast. - Viktor Frankl

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

I don't think much of a dance step where the girl looks like she was being carried out of a burning building. - Kin Hubbard

If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that. - John Lennon

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

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

For me, the drive is storytelling. To be a part of an art that tells a story and to be a catalyst, a color in that, is very exciting. - Alden Ehrenreich

Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen. - Pablo Picasso

Who's judging American Idol? Paula Abdul? Paula Abdul judging a singing contest is like Christopher Reeve judging a dance contest. - George Carlin

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