Creative Vandalism

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

We have art to save ourselves from the truth. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

What is this, an audience or an oil painting? - Milton Berle

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

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

Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist. - Franz Liszt

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

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

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

I'm due at the ballet. They're doin' Swoon Lake. - Archie Bunker

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

Stand-up comedy is an art form and it dies unless you expand it. - Sam Kinison

I don't own a camera, so I travel with a police sketch artist. - George Carlin

Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. - Aristotle

A painting is never finished — it simply stops in interesting places. - Paul Gardner

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

It is through art, and through art only, that we can realize our perfection. - Oscar Wilde

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

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

The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you. - Oscar Wilde

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

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

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

Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experience treacherous, judgment difficult. - Hypocrites

Copy nature and you infringe on the work of our Lord. Interpret nature and you are an artist. - Jacques Lipchitz

What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying. - Oscar Wilde

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist. - Oscar Wilde

A creative artist works on his next composition because he was not satisfied with his previous one. - Dmitri Shostakovich

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

Psychiatry is the art of teaching people how to stand on their own two feet while reclining on couches. - Sigmund Freud

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

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

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

I was not naturally talented. I didn't sing, dance or act, though working around that minor detail made me inventive. - Steve Martin

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

An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation. - Joseph Conrad

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 is the window to man's soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see the man within. - Claudia Johnson

If it's flipping hamburgers at McDonald's, be the best hamburger flipper in the world. Whatever it is you do you have to master your craft. - Snoop Dogg