Below Ground

Life is brief, art is long. - Hippocrates

Art is the most beautiful of lies. - Claude Debussy

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

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

Art is a house that tries to be haunted. - Emily Dickinson

Half the people you know are below average. - Steven Wright

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

A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing. - Clive James

You can dance anywhere, even if only in your heart. - Unknown

The only time I feel alive is when I'm painting. - Andy Warhol

Dancing: The Highest Intelligence in the Freest Body. - Isadora Duncan

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

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

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

Before they invented drawing boards, what did they go back to? - George Carlin

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

We're fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance. - Japanese Proverb

The fine art of preparing sushi is something that you watch and learn. - Nobu Matsuhisa

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

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

We dance in a circle and suppose, while the secret sits in the middle and knows. - Robert Frost

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

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. - Scott Adams

To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist. - Robert Schumann

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. - Albert Einstein

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

Writing is very much a playground - an artistic playground. It's the most fun thing I do. - Shania Twain

In my house on the ceilings I have paintings of the rooms above, so I never have to go upstairs. - Steven Wright

Leadership is the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done. - Vance Packard

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

What's the earth with all its art, verse, music, worth -
Compared with love, found, gained, and kept? - Robert Browning

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

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

Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words. - Robert G Ingersoll

An intellectual is a man who says a simple thing in a difficult way; an artist is a man who says a difficult thing in a simple way. - Charles Bukowski

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

Art owes its origin to nature. This beautiful creation supplied the first model, while the original teacher was that divine intelligence. - Giorgio Vasari

The physician should look upon the patient as a besieged city and try to rescue him with every means that art and science place at his command. - Alexander of Tralles

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