Street Genius

Dust thou art, to dust returnest. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Every artist was first an amateur. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Art is the signature of civilizations. - Beverly Sills

Either dance well or quit the ballroom. - Greek Proverb

I have nothing to declare except my genius. - Oscar Wilde

To watch us dance is to hear our hearts speak. - Indian Proverb

Talking about music is like dancing about architecture. - Steve Martin

The immature artist imitates. The mature artist steals. - Lionel Trilling

A genius is one who can do anything except make a living. - Joey L Adams

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

Ireland is a fruitful mother of genius, but a barren nurse. - Unknown

The new job of art is to sit on the wall and get more expensive. - Robert Hughes

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

The fine art of preparing sushi is something that you watch and learn. - Nobu Matsuhisa

There's no need for a piece of sculpture in a home that has a cat. - Wesley Bates

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

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

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. - Emile Zola

Grantartica: The cold, isolated place where art companies dwell without funding - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

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

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease. - Voltaire

Anyone who thinks the art of conversation is dead ought to tell a child to go to bed. - Robert Gallagher

The most potent and sacred command which can be laid upon any artist is the command: wait. - Iris Murdoch

Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experience treacherous, judgment difficult. - Hypocrites

I'm proud of my Irish heritage and culture and this show will feature a lot of Irish dancing. - Michael Flatley

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

Because I'm an artist, I can't ever consider myself a nihilist, so I suppose I'm optimistic. - Marilyn Manson

If you find yourself interesting, you're a bore.
But if you find me interesting, you're a genius. - David Foster

The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up. - Jay Leno

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

That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward. - Ernest Hemingway

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

We've never been cool, we're hot. Irish people are Italians who can't dress, Jamaicans who can't dance. - Bono

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living. - Frederic Amiel

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

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

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

Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of words. - Franz Liszt

If it's flipping hamburgers at McDonald's, be the best hamburger flipper in the world. Whatever it is you do you have to master your craft. - Snoop Dogg