Measure Twice, Cut Once

No Sane man will dance. - Cicero

Surfing is attitude dancing. - Gerry Lopez

My trade and my art is living. - Michel De Montaigne

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

It costs nothing to encourage an artist. - Kevin Smith

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

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

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

Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend. - John Singer Sargent

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

We can dance on pinheads till the cows come home. - Alastair Campbell

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

Love the art in yourself, not yourself in the art. - Constantin Stanislavski

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

Dance first. Think later. It's the natural order. - Samuel Beckett

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

Art is not what you see, but what you make others see. - Degas

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

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture. - Elvis Costello

An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision. - James M Whistler

A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art. - Paul Cezanne

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

You can often measure a person by the size of his dream. - Robert H. Schuller

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

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

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

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

Opportunity dances with those who are already on the dance floor. - Jackson Brown

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

In an artist's life, death is perhaps not the most difficult thing. - Vincent van Gogh

The art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on. - Henry H Ellis

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. - Scott Adams

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

To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist. - Robert Schumann

A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew. - Herb Caen

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

Writing is very much a playground - an artistic playground. It's the most fun thing I do. - Shania Twain

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

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

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

You can't dance at two weddings at the same time; nor can you sit on two horses with one behind. - Yiddish Proverb

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

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

The man who can make others laugh secures more votes for a measure than the man who forces them to think. - Malcolm de Chazal

'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.' - W H Auden

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

It is our art that has an opportunity to leave a footprint in the sand. They don't wrap fish in our work. - Hugh N Jacobsen

What's the earth with all its art, verse, music, worth -
Compared with love, found, gained, and kept? - Robert Browning

To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way. - E M Forster

The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up. - Jay Leno

Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and acitivty of man's nature. - Robert South

A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist. - R. Buckminster Fuller

Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability. - John Wooden

Despite all our toil and progress, the art of medicine still falls somewhere between trout casting and spook writing. - Ben Hecht

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

The biggest thing separating people from their artistic ambitions is not a lack of talent. It's the lack of a deadline. - Chris Baty

If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him. - John F Kennedy

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

To live is to be musical, starting with the blood dancing in your veins. Everything living has a rhythm. Do you feel your music? - Michael Jackson

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

Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. - Donald Trump

Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen. - Pablo Picasso

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

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival. - C S Lewis