Resting Bird

A married man is a caged bird. - Spanish Proverb

The painting has a life of its own. - Jackson Pollock

What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art. - Augustus Saint-Gaudens

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

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

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

Art is not what you see, but what you make others see. - Degas

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

Costumes and scenery alone will not attract audiences. - Anna Held

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

No one should have to dance backwards all their lives. - Jill Ruckelshaus

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

The early bird gets the worm. The early worm gets eaten. - Norman Augustine

Mathematical genius and artistic genius touch one another. - Gosta Mittag-Leffler

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

The Bird of Hermes is my name, eating my wings to make me tame. - Kohta Hirano

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

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul. - Joseph Addison

Art doesn't reproduce the visible but rather makes it visible. - Paul Klee

If you're already walking on thin ice, you might as well dance. - Proverb

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

Tact is the art of convincing people that they know more than you do. - Raymond Mortimer

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

In the haunted house of life, art is the only stair that doesn't creak. - Tom Robbins

Though what bird in the best of circumstances does not look a little stricken? - Lorrie Moore

You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul. - George Bernard Shaw

We dance in a circle and suppose, while the secret sits in the middle and knows. - Robert Frost

The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity. - Andre Gide

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

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

A bird that you set free may be caught again, but a word that escapes your lips will not return. - Jewish Proverb

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

A blind man can make art if what is in his mind can be passed to another mind in some tangible form. - Sol LeWitt

Psychiatry is the art of teaching people how to stand on their own two feet while reclining on couches. - Sigmund Freud

I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast. - Viktor Frankl

Dance as if no one's watching, sing as if no one's listening, and live everyday as if it were your last. - Irish Proverb

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

You are Mr. Owl. I am Ms. Hummingbird. We may come from different species but as long as you're a bird, I'm a bird too. - Glad Munaiseche

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