Street Genius

Dancing is silent poetry. - Simonides

True genius lies in simplicity. - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

A great nation deserves great art. - Art Delage

Art is the signature of civilizations. - Beverly Sills

Dance is the hidden language of the soul. - Martha Graham

All dancing girls are nineteen years old. - Japanese Proverb

To see things in the seed, that is genius. - Lao-Tzu

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life. - Oscar Wilde

God is not interested in your art but, your heart. - Ifeanyi E. Onuoha

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

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

Dancing can reveal all the mystery that music conceals. - Charles Baudelaire

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

Life doesn't imitate art; it imitates bad television. - Woody Allen

To understand Europe, you have to be a genius - or French. - Madeleine Albright

I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works. - Oscar Wilde

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

Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it. - Robert Motherwell

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

Marriage requires a special talent like acting. Monogamy requires genius. - Warren Beatty

We have art so that we do not die of reality. Reality is too much with us. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Even a genius cannot completely resist his Zeitgeist, the spirit of his time. - Viktor Frankl

Diplomacy is the art of saying, "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock. - Will Rogers

Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on. - Robert Frost

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

The truest expression of a people is in its dance and in its music. Bodies never lie. - Agnes De Mille

A half finished shawl left on the coffee table isn't a mess; it's an object of art. - Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

The trouble with Ireland is that it's a country full of genius, with absolutely no talent. - Hugh Leonard

A creative artist works on his next composition because he was not satisfied with his previous one. - Dmitri Shostakovich

No kid is unsmart. Every kid's a genius at something. Our job is to find it. And then encourage it. - Robin Sharma

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

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

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

Art is made to disturb. Science reassures. There is only one valuable thin in art: the thing you cannot explain. - Georges Braque

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

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

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