Risky Graffiti

All art is quite useless. - Oscar Wilde

Life is brief, art is long. - Hippocrates

Any idealism is a proper subject for art. - Lafcadio Hearn

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

All dancing girls are nineteen years old. - Japanese Proverb

Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie. - David Mamet

I'm not making art, I'm making sushi. - Masaharu Morimoto

Ballet is good, because it makes you stand up tall. - Carine Roitfeld

In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home. - Twyla Tharp

My train of thought derailed. There were no survivors. - Unknown

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing. - Marcus Aurelius

A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art. - Paul Cezanne

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

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

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

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul. - Joseph Addison

The best car safety device is a rear-view mirror with a cop in it. - Dudley Moore

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

A really well made buttonhole is the only link between art and nature. - Oscar Wilde

The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes. - Tony Blair

All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography. - Frederico Fellini

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

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

Stress is your body's way of saying you haven't worked enough unpaid overtime. - Scott Adams

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

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

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

I like to put on a wig or a fake mustache and do something silly with friends, do a little dance. - Tom Lenk

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece. - Ludwig Erhard

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

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

'Tis not always in a physician's power to cure the sick; at times the disease is stronger than trained art. - Ovid

Transformation also means looking for ways to stop pushing yourself so hard professionally or inviting so much stress. - Gail Sheehy

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

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 begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor. - Andre Gide

Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other. - Oscar Ameringer

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