Street Genius

Genius borrows nobly. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Politics is the art of the possible. - Otto von Bismarck

Any idealism is a proper subject for art. - Lafcadio Hearn

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

We can choose to hate the rain or dance in it. - Joan Marques

A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing. - Clive James

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

Trapeze Artist: A guy who gets the hang of things. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery. - Francis Bacon

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

Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity. - Yoko Ono

Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense. - Josh Billings

Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire. - Steven Wright

There are short-cuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them. - Vicki Baum

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

We're fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance. - Japanese Proverb

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

The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much. - William Hazlitt

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

Life beats down and crushes the soul, but art reminds you that you have one. - Stella Adler

Genius means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way. - William James

Humour is a rubber sword - it allows you to make a point without drawing blood. - Mary Hirsch

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

Copy nature and you infringe on the work of our Lord. Interpret nature and you are an artist. - Jacques Lipchitz

The ballet toe shoe is one of the few instruments of torture to survive intact into our time. - Unknown

I have discovered the art of fooling diplomats. I speak the truth, and they never believe me. - Camillo Di Cavour

Art is the right hand of nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men. - Friedrich Schiller

Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it. - Dwight D Eisenhower

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

The greatest genius will never be worth much if he pretends to draw exclusively from his own resources. - Johann Wolfgang Goethe

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

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

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece. - Ludwig Erhard

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

I could dance with you till the cows come home...
on second thought, I'll dance with the cows till you come home. - Groucho Marx

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

It's tangible, it's solid, it's beautiful. It's artistic, from my standpoint, and I just love real estate. - Donald Trump

I don't want to be the oldest performer in captivity. I don't want to look like a little old man dancing out there. - Fred Astaire

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