Street Genius

Surfing is attitude dancing. - Gerry Lopez

The secret of life is in art. - Oscar Wilde

Every artist was first an amateur. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

I view art as an inspirational tool. - Thomas Kincade

An art thief is a man who takes pictures. - George Carlin

Inspiration and genius - one and the same. - Victor Hugo

Truth is simple, requiring neither study nor art. - Ammian

The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook. - William James

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

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

Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience. - George Louis de Buffon

Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist. - Franz Liszt

Making sushi is an art, and experience is everything. - Nobu Matsuhisa

The art of being a slave is to rule one's master. - Diogenes

Caricature is the tribute that mediocrity pays to genius. - Oscar Wilde

Dancing is like bank robbery - it takes split second timing. - Twyla Tharp

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

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

I'm a guy who can't function well in life, but I can in art. - Woody Allen

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

Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience. - Paul Cezanne

The role of the artist today is to defend feeling against the machine. - Marty Rubin

Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature? - Charles Baudelaire

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius. - Oscar Wilde

I don't want people who want to dance; I want people who have to dance. - George Balanchine

The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions which have been hidden by the answers. - James Baldwin

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. - Oscar Wilde

Transplanting the ballet to the United States is like trying to raise a palm tree in Dakota. - Lincoln Kirsten

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

Boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music, no choreography, and the dancers hit each other. - Jack Handey

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

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

Just as the bird sings or the butterfly soars, because it is his natural characteristic, so the artist works. - Alma Gluck

Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel. - William Hazlitt

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

Work like you don't need the money, dance like no one is watching, and love like you've never been hurt. - Mark Twain

The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind. - Paracelsus

For me, the drive is storytelling. To be a part of an art that tells a story and to be a catalyst, a color in that, is very exciting. - Alden Ehrenreich

The physician should look upon the patient as a besieged city and try to rescue him with every means that art and science place at his command. - Alexander of Tralles

Humility is becoming a lost art, but it's not difficult to practice. It means that you realize that others have been involved in your success. - Harvey Mackay