Coming Up Roses

Surfing is attitude dancing. - Gerry Lopez

A great nation deserves great art. - Art Delage

One does not marry art. One ravishes it. - Edgar Degas

Dancing with her was like moving a piano. - Ring Lardner

An art thief is a man who takes pictures. - George Carlin

Education is the art of making man ethical. - Georg Hegel

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

Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence. - Joseph Krutch

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

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

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

Making sushi is an art, and experience is everything. - Nobu Matsuhisa

To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature. - August Rodin

Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing. - Robert Benchley

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture. - Elvis Costello

Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity. - Yoko Ono

Dance is a delicate balance between perfection and beauty. - Unknown

Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion. - Miguel de Unamuno

The one thing that can solve most of our problems is dancing. - James Brown

I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck. - Emma Goldman

There's no need for a piece of sculpture in a home that has a cat. - Wesley Bates

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

Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. - Gunter Grass

It will never rain roses. When we want to have more roses, we must plant more roses. - George Eliot

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

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

Leadership: The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. - Dwight D Eisenhower

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

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

If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that. - John Lennon

An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it is also more nourishing. - H L Mencken

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy. - Groucho Marx

As an experienced artist, I carry my work like a secret pregnancy. I am always aware of inner life and the need to protect it. - Julia Cameron

When it began, cubism was a sort of analysis, which was no more painting than the description of physical phenomena was physics. - Juan Gris

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

Go figure a crazy, mixed-up country where ballet outsells boxing. I wouldn't be surprised if their wrestling was on the level. - Bob Hope

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

The only happy artist is a dead artist, because only then you can't change. After I die, I'll probably come back as a paintbrush. - Sylvester Stallone

My wife was a make-up artist, and she's a total product junkie. Our bathroom is packed full of lotions and potions so I end up trying them out. - Robert Carlyle