Sign Crime

A great nation deserves great art. - Art Delage

The modern work of art is a symbol. - Herbert Read

We have art to save ourselves from the truth. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

I should not believe in a God who does not dance. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook. - William James

The art of love is largely the art of persistence. - Albert Ellis

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

Dance first. Think later. It's the natural order. - Samuel Beckett

The art of being a slave is to rule one's master. - Diogenes

The art of government is the organization of idolatry. - George Bernard Shaw

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

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

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. - Pablo Picasso

Out of suffering comes creativity. You cannot spell painting without pain. - John Lithgow

A sign of celebrity is that his name is often worth more than his services. - Daniel J. Boorstin

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

Let your life lightly dance on the edges of time, like dew on the tip of a leaf. - Unknown

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

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease. - Voltaire

Anyone who thinks the art of conversation is dead ought to tell a child to go to bed. - Robert Gallagher

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

The dance: a minimum of explanation, a minimum of anecdotes, and a maximum of sensations. - Maurice Bejart

If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign? - Albert Einstein

Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart. - Jose N Harris

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

Shopping: The fine art of acquiring things you don't need with money you don't have. - Unknown

The art of art, the glory of expression, and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity. - Walt Whitman

If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank. - Woody Allen

I got all the schooling any actress needs. That is, I learned to write well enough to sign contracts. - Hermione Gingold

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

It's a sign of age if you feel like the morning after the night before and you haven't been anywhere. - 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

The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us. - Bill Watterson

Pain is a sign that we are alive. Problems are a sign that we are strong. Prayer is a sign that we are not alone. - Unknown

I don't think much of a dance step where the girl looks like she was being carried out of a burning building. - Kin Hubbard

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

Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message. - Malcolm Muggeridge

The greatest sign of success for a teacher is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist." - Maria Montessori

Drink and dance and laugh and lie,
Love, the reeling midnight through,
For tomorrow we shall die!
(But, alas, we never do.) - Dorothy Parker

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival. - C S Lewis