Unknown Artist

No Sane man will dance. - Cicero

It is good to love the unknown. - Charles Lamb

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

Dancing with her was like moving a piano. - Ring Lardner

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

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

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

No one should have to dance backwards all their lives. - Jill Ruckelshaus

Life is a dance. Mindfulness is witnessing that dance. - Amit Ray

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

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

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

Art in nature is rhythmic and has a horror of constraint. - Robert Delaunay

The one thing that can solve most of our problems is dancing. - James Brown

It is a symbol of Irish art. The cracked looking-glass of a servant. - James Joyce

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known. - Oscar Wilde

The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes. - Tony Blair

All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography. - Frederico Fellini

Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music. - George Carlin

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can. - Danny Kaye

Italy is the home of art and swindling; home of religion and moral rottenness. - Mark Twain

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can inspire. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Propaganda is the art of persuading others of what you don't believe yourself. - Abba Eban

Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. - Gunter Grass

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

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

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

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

No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time. It is just that the others are behind the time. - Martha Graham

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

Build. Destroy. Rebuild. I've mastered the art of bouncing back. Now to master the art of not having to. - Unknown

Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned. - George Balanchine

I went to the museum where they had all the heads and arms from the statues that are in all the other museums. - Steven Wright

Dance as if no one's watching, sing as if no one's listening, and live everyday as if it were your last. - Irish Proverb

I don't think much of a dance step where the girl looks like she was being carried out of a burning building. - Kin Hubbard

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

The birch-bark canoe of the savage seems to me one of the most beautiful and perfect things of the kind constructed by human art. - William C. Bryant

The greatest achievement of humanity is not its works of art, science, or technology, but the recognition of its own dysfunction. - Eckhart Tolle

Logic: the art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. - Ambrose Bierce

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other. - Voltaire