Statue Pose

Life is brief, art is long. - Hippocrates

Art is the most beautiful of lies. - Claude Debussy

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

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

We can dance on pinheads till the cows come home. - Alastair Campbell

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

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

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

Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough. - Groucho Marx

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

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

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

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

Dancing is like bank robbery - it takes split second timing. - Twyla Tharp

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

Oratory is the art of making a loud noise seem like a deep thought. - American Proverb

It is a symbol of Irish art. The cracked looking-glass of a servant. - James Joyce

The art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on. - Henry H Ellis

The art challenges the technology, and the technology inspires the art. - John Lasseter

The great art of life is sensation; to feel that we exist, even in pain. - Lord Byron

There are moments when Art almost attains to the dignity of manual labor. - Oscar Wilde

Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music. - William Stafford

Dancing is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made. - Ted Shawn

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

Dance till the stars come down from the rafters! Dance, Dance, Dance till you drop! - W H Auden

There's no one way to dance. And that's kind of my philosophy about everything. - Ellen Degeneres

Do you know what White House correspondents call actors who pose as reporters? Anchors. - Jay Leno

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

It's amazing what you can do with an E in A-Level art, a twisted imagination and a chainsaw. - Damien Hirst

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

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

Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching. - Satchel Paige

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

The biggest thing separating people from their artistic ambitions is not a lack of talent. It's the lack of a deadline. - Chris Baty

If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him. - John F Kennedy

Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting, or living itself, which is the greatest art of all. - Ray Bradbury

You can imagine me as a kid growing up in redneck Texas with ballet shoes, tucking the violin under my arm. I had to fight my way up. - Patrick Swayze

Who's judging American Idol? Paula Abdul? Paula Abdul judging a singing contest is like Christopher Reeve judging a dance contest. - George Carlin

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