Measure Twice, Cut Once

Measure twice, cut once. - Craftsman Aphorism

Dancing is silent poetry. - Simonides

Life is brief, art is long. - Hippocrates

Art is the signature of civilizations. - Beverly Sills

The artist in me cries out for design. - Robert Frost

Art is anything you can get away with. - Marshall McLuhan

The human body is the best work of art. - Jess C. Scott

What an artist the world is losing in me. - Nero

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

Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence. - Joseph Krutch

I should not believe in a God who does not dance. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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

Ballet is good, because it makes you stand up tall. - Carine Roitfeld

The measure of intelligence is the ability to change. - Albert Einstein

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

The art of government is the organization of idolatry. - George Bernard Shaw

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

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

Nothing burns more calories than dancing in 5-inch heels. - Ariana Grande

The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have. - Unknown

Measure a man by the opposition it takes to discourage him. - Unknown

The measure of a life is not its duration but its donation. - Corrie Ten Boom

We need a leader that wrote "The Art of the Deal". - Donald Trump

They couldn't find the artist, so they hung the picture. - Unknown

Advertising is the greatest art form of the twentieth century. - Marshall McLuhan

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

Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between. - David Letterman

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

How a society treats its disabled is the true measure of a civilization. - Chen Guangcheng

There are moments when Art almost attains to the dignity of manual labor. - Oscar Wilde

Just because you can measure everything doesn't mean that you should. - W Edward Deming

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

Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises. - Samuel Butler

You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul. - George Bernard Shaw

We dance in a circle and suppose, while the secret sits in the middle and knows. - Robert Frost

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

I love contemporary art, although I wouldn't want a pickled shark in my house. - Bruno Tonioli

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

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

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

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

The dance: a minimum of explanation, a minimum of anecdotes, and a maximum of sensations. - Maurice Bejart

Shopping: The fine art of acquiring things you don't need with money you don't have. - Unknown

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

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

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance. - e e cummings

The mission of the artist in an over-technologized society, is to call the old magic back to life. - Tom Robbins

The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic slice of truth, wisdom, is dying out. - Walter Benjamin

The most important measure of how good a game I played was how much better I'd made my teammates play. - Bill Russell

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

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

'Tis not always in a physician's power to cure the sick; at times the disease is stronger than trained art. - Ovid

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

Adversity is another way to measure the greatness of individuals. I never had a crisis that didn't make me stronger. - Lou Holtz

As an experienced artist, I carry my work like a secret pregnancy. I am always aware of inner life and the need to protect it. - Julia Cameron

When it began, cubism was a sort of analysis, which was no more painting than the description of physical phenomena was physics. - Juan Gris

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

The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year. - John Foster Dulles

Go figure a crazy, mixed-up country where ballet outsells boxing. I wouldn't be surprised if their wrestling was on the level. - Bob Hope

Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor. - Andre Gide

Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other. - Oscar Ameringer

Art owes its origin to nature. This beautiful creation supplied the first model, while the original teacher was that divine intelligence. - Giorgio Vasari

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