Resting Bird

The early bird catches the worm. - English Proverb

A great nation deserves great art. - Art Delage

All dancing girls are nineteen years old. - Japanese Proverb

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

Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life. - Oscar Wilde

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

The 'Earth' without art is just 'eh'. - Unknown

No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings. - William Blake

Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art. - F Scott Fitzgerald

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

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

The art of mothering is to teach the art of living to children. - Elaine Heffner

If one cannot catch the bird of paradise, better take a wet hen. - Nikita Krushchev

Opportunity dances with those who are already on the dance floor. - Jackson Brown

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

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

All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography. - Frederico Fellini

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

To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine. - Henry Ward Beecher

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

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

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

Prophecy: The art and practice of selling one's credibility for future delivery. - Ambrose Bierce

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. - Lanston Hughes

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

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order. - Alfred N Whitehead

I grew up with six brothers. That's how I learned to dance - waiting for the bathroom. - Bob Hope

The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic slice of truth, wisdom, is dying out. - Walter Benjamin

Learn to adapt like a bird. We can only dream of flying, but the bird has already grown her wings. - Debasish Mridha

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. - Aristotle

Never pay attention to what critics say. Remember, a statue has never been set up in honor of a critic. - Jean Sibelius

'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.' - W H Auden

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

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

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

He who would learn to fly on day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

When a poet digs himself into a hole, he doesn't climb out. He digs deeper, enjoys the scenery, and comes out the other side enlightened. - Criss Jami

Like a prisoner awaiting his release, like a schoolboy when the end of term is near, like a migrant bird ready to fly south... I long to be gone. - Malcolm Muggeridge

Art is the window to man's soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see the man within. - Claudia Johnson