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No Sane man will dance. - Cicero

Dancing is silent poetry. - Simonides

Life calls the tune, we dance. - John Galsworthy

Dust thou art, to dust returnest. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Our humor turns our anger into a fine art. - Mary Kay Blakely

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

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

A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing. - Clive James

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

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

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

Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity. - Yoko Ono

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

There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome. - Andre Gide

There's no need for a piece of sculpture in a home that has a cat. - Wesley Bates

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

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

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

Humour is a rubber sword - it allows you to make a point without drawing blood. - Mary Hirsch

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

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

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better. - Andre Gide

Transplanting the ballet to the United States is like trying to raise a palm tree in Dakota. - Lincoln Kirsten

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

A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left. - Alexander Pope

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

In my house on the ceilings I have paintings of the rooms above, so I never have to go upstairs. - Steven Wright

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. - Aristotle

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. - John Kenneth Galbraith

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

Work like you don't need the money, dance like no one is watching, and love like you've never been hurt. - Mark Twain

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

Preaching is not the art of making a sermon and delivering it. Preaching is the art of making a preacher and delivering him. - Bishop Quayle

Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting, or living itself, which is the greatest art of all. - Ray Bradbury

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

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

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

I adore art. When I am alone with my notes, my heart pounds and the tears stream from my eyes, and my emotion and my joys are too much to bear. - Guiseppe Verdi