Below Ground
Discovering underground art
Unleashing a new can of worms
QuotaBillsEvery artist was first an amateur. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wrestling is ballet with violence. - Jesse Ventura
The painting has a life of its own. - Jackson Pollock
Tea is a religion of the art of life. - Okakura Kakuzo
Education is the art of making man ethical. - Georg Hegel
The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity. - Douglas Horton
Oregano: The ancient Italian art of pizza folding - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
Ballet is good, because it makes you stand up tall. - Carine Roitfeld
You can dance anywhere, even if only in your heart. - Unknown
Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist. - Franz Liszt
The art of government is the organization of idolatry. - George Bernard Shaw
Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Botany: The art of insulting flowers in Greek and Latin. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
Nothing burns more calories than dancing in 5-inch heels. - Ariana Grande
The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection. - Mechelangelo di Lodovico
Art doesn't reproduce the visible but rather makes it visible. - Paul Klee
A painting is never finished — it simply stops in interesting places. - Paul Gardner
To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy. - Will Durant
Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music. - William Stafford
Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing. - Ralph Richardson
The practice of art isn't to make a living. It's to make your soul grow. - Kurt Vonnegut
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. - Pablo Picasso
I love contemporary art, although I wouldn't want a pickled shark in my house. - Bruno Tonioli
Dance till the stars come down from the rafters! Dance, Dance, Dance till you drop! - W H Auden
The man who is ostentatious of his modesty is twin to the statue that wears a fig-leaf. - Mark Twain
The most potent and sacred command which can be laid upon any artist is the command: wait. - Iris Murdoch
A half finished shawl left on the coffee table isn't a mess; it's an object of art. - Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
Shopping: The fine art of acquiring things you don't need with money you don't have. - Unknown
I'd stay away from Ecstasy: this is a drug so strong it makes white people think they can dance. - Lenny Henry
A man who thinks too much about his ancestors is like a potato - the best part of him is underground. - Henry Cooper
Build. Destroy. Rebuild. I've mastered the art of bouncing back. Now to master the art of not having to. - Unknown
Work like you don't need the money, dance like no one is watching, and love like you've never been hurt. - Mark Twain
Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and acitivty of man's nature. - Robert South
'Tis not always in a physician's power to cure the sick; at times the disease is stronger than trained art. - Ovid
I was not naturally talented. I didn't sing, dance or act, though working around that minor detail made me inventive. - Steve Martin
To live is to be musical, starting with the blood dancing in your veins. Everything living has a rhythm. Do you feel your music? - Michael Jackson
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
You can imagine me as a kid growing up in redneck Texas with ballet shoes, tucking the violin under my arm. I had to fight my way up. - Patrick Swayze
Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of words. - Franz Liszt
I adore art. When I am alone with my notes, my heart pounds and the tears stream from my eyes, and my emotion and my joys are too much to bear. - Guiseppe Verdi