Sick Statue

Art is a revolt against fate. - Andre Malraux

Life calls the tune, we dance. - John Galsworthy

Tea is a religion of the art of life. - Okakura Kakuzo

Life is the art of drawing without an eraser. - John Gardner

Art is either a plagiarist or a revolutionist. - Paul Gauguin

We can choose to hate the rain or dance in it. - Joan Marques

The art of love is largely the art of persistence. - Albert Ellis

The art of a people is a true mirror to their minds. - Jawaharlal Nehru

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

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

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

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

We can't predict what a virus we've never seen will do. - Marc Lipsitch

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

Anyone who says you can't see a thought simply doesn't know art. - Wynetka Ann Reynolds

The great art of life is sensation; to feel that we exist, even in pain. - Lord Byron

Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music. - William Stafford

Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing. - Ralph Richardson

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

The practice of art isn't to make a living. It's to make your soul grow. - Kurt Vonnegut

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

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

I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself. - Mihkail Baryshnikov

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul and paints his own nature into his pictures. - Henry Ward Beecher

Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it. - Laurence J Peter

Leadership is the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done. - Vance Packard

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

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

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

The minute there's a map, there is no art. Paint by numbers is not art. Paint by numbers is a mechanical activity. - Seth Godin

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

He who would learn to fly on day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

We all know that art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. - Pablo Picasso

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

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

An intellectual is a man who says a simple thing in a difficult way; an artist is a man who says a difficult thing in a simple way. - Charles Bukowski

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

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

Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of words. - Franz Liszt