Coming Up Roses

Stop and smell the roses. - Phoebe Moll

Art is a house that tries to be haunted. - Emily Dickinson

All great art comes from a sense of outrage. - Glenn Close

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

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

Can't act. Can sing. Balding. Can dance a little. - MGM Executive

The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery. - Francis Bacon

Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art. - Claude Debussy

Management is a practice where art, science, and craft meet. - Henry Mintzberg

Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between. - David Letterman

God gave us our memories so that we might have roses in December. - James M Barrie

Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you. - Richard B. Sheridan

To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy. - Will Durant

Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart go together. - John Ruskin

Life beats down and crushes the soul, but art reminds you that you have one. - Stella Adler

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

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

The practice of art isn't to make a living. It's to make your soul grow. - Kurt Vonnegut

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

Roses are red, Pizza sauce is too, I ordered a large, and None of it is for you. - Unknown

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

Like the cosmetics industry, the securities business is engaged in selling illusion. - Paul Samuelson

The truest expression of a people is in its dance and in its music. Bodies never lie. - Agnes De Mille

I should rather men ask why no statue has been erected in my honour, than why one has. - Marcus Porcius Cato

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

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad. - Salvador Dali

In the cycle of a great civilization, the artist begins as priest, and ends as a clown or buffoon. - Malcolm Muggeridge

I'd stay away from Ecstasy: this is a drug so strong it makes white people think they can dance. - Lenny Henry

Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted in spite of your changing moods. - C S Lewis

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. - Albert Einstein

Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned. - George Balanchine

I went to the museum where they had all the heads and arms from the statues that are in all the other museums. - Steven Wright

Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and acitivty of man's nature. - Robert South

Outcomes rarely turn on grand gestures or the art of the deal, but on whether you've sent someone a thank-you note. - Bernie Brillstein

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

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

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

Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. - Donald Trump

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