Street Genius

All art is quite useless. - Oscar Wilde

Genius is sorrow's child. - John Adams

Life calls the tune, we dance. - John Galsworthy

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

Dance can give the inarticulate a voice. - Pamela Brown

Vision is the art of seeing things invisible. - Jonathan Swift

No author is a man of genius to his publisher. - Heinrich Heine

The true art of memory is the art of attention. - Samuel Johnson

I should not believe in a God who does not dance. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace. - Oscar Wilde

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

A genius from nine to five - a fool at the weekends. - Unknown

Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art. - Oscar Wilde

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

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls. - Pablo Picasso

The difference between genius and stupidity is: genius has its limits. - Alexandre Dumas

If thou art a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf. - Thomas Fuller

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

Out of suffering comes creativity. You cannot spell painting without pain. - John Lithgow

I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough? - Vincent van Gogh

An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have. - Andy Warhol

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

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

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

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

A long marriage is two people trying to dance a duet and two solos at the same time. - Anne Taylor Fleming

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

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius. - Arthur Conan Doyle

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

Man who invented the hamburger was smart; man who invented the cheeseburger was a genius. - Matthew McConaughey

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

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

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

I was not naturally talented. I didn't sing, dance or act, though working around that minor detail made me inventive. - Steve Martin

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

Preaching is not the art of making a sermon and delivering it. Preaching is the art of making a preacher and delivering him. - Bishop Quayle

Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen. - Pablo Picasso

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies. - Napoleon Bonaparte