Below Ground

Dancing is silent poetry. - Simonides

A great nation deserves great art. - Art Delage

The human body is the best work of art. - Jess C. Scott

What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art. - Augustus Saint-Gaudens

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

The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity. - Douglas Horton

In life as in dance: Grace glides on blistered feet. - Alice Abrams

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

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

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

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

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

Life is too short to eat vanilla ice cream and dance with boring men. - Unknown

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known. - Oscar Wilde

In an artist's life, death is perhaps not the most difficult thing. - Vincent van Gogh

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

You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul. - George Bernard Shaw

Dancing is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made. - Ted Shawn

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

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

Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on. - Robert Frost

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

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

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

Transplanting the ballet to the United States is like trying to raise a palm tree in Dakota. - Lincoln Kirsten

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

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

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

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

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

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

The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up. - Jay Leno

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

It's tangible, it's solid, it's beautiful. It's artistic, from my standpoint, and I just love real estate. - Donald Trump

The biggest thing separating people from their artistic ambitions is not a lack of talent. It's the lack of a deadline. - Chris Baty

We all know that art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. - Pablo Picasso

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

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