Sewing Sculpture

Wrestling is ballet with violence. - Jesse Ventura

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

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

What an artist the world is losing in me. - Nero

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

An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one. - Charles Horton Cooley

I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting. - Jackson Pollock

Politics is the art of controlling your environment. - Hunter S. Thompson

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

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

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

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

The Iranians and Persians are excellent at the art of negotiation. - Donald Trump

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

The art of conversation is the art of hearing as well as of being heard. - William Hazlitt

Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises. - Samuel Butler

The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you. - Oscar Wilde

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

The trouble with dancing naked is that not everything stops when the music does. - Unknown

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. - Pablo Picasso

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

When other little girls wanted to be ballet dancers, I kind of wanted to be a vampire. - Angelina Jolie

The most potent and sacred command which can be laid upon any artist is the command: wait. - Iris Murdoch

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

I have discovered the art of fooling diplomats. I speak the truth, and they never believe me. - Camillo Di Cavour

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass; it's about learning to dance in the rain. - Vivian Greene

We ought to dance with rapture that we might be alive... and part of the living, incarnate cosmos. - D.H. Lawrence

Boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music, no choreography, and the dancers hit each other. - Jack Handey

Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings. - Vicki Baum

We have to prove beyond the shadow of a doubt that it is talent and training, not color, that makes a ballet dancer. - Arthur Mitchell

When I moved out of my mom's house at 18 I was almost as sad to leave her sewing machine behind as anything else. - Beth Ditto

Look inside. That way lies dancing to the melodies spun out by your own heart. This is a symphony. All the rest are jingles. - Anna Quindlen

The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind. - Paracelsus

The greatest achievement of humanity is not its works of art, science, or technology, but the recognition of its own dysfunction. - Eckhart Tolle

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

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies. - Napoleon Bonaparte

If it's flipping hamburgers at McDonald's, be the best hamburger flipper in the world. Whatever it is you do you have to master your craft. - Snoop Dogg

I'm always tinkering with something - suddenly I'll think I can work with wood, but then I'll realize I can't, so I go back to sewing. - Melissa McCarthy