Creative Vandalism

All art is quite useless. - Oscar Wilde

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

All dancing girls are nineteen years old. - Japanese Proverb

What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art. - Augustus Saint-Gaudens

Vision is the art of seeing things invisible. - Jonathan Swift

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

You can dance anywhere, even if only in your heart. - Unknown

Art is making something out of nothing and selling it. - Frank Zappa

No one should have to dance backwards all their lives. - Jill Ruckelshaus

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

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

One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art. - Oscar Wilde

Dance is a delicate balance between perfection and beauty. - Unknown

Art is the demonstration that the ordinary is extraordinary. - Amedee Ozenfant

Life is too short to eat vanilla ice cream and dance with boring men. - Unknown

We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master. - Ernest Hemingway

A really well made buttonhole is the only link between art and nature. - Oscar Wilde

All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography. - Frederico Fellini

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

Out of suffering comes creativity. You cannot spell painting without pain. - John Lithgow

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

Italy is the home of art and swindling; home of religion and moral rottenness. - Mark Twain

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

Let your life lightly dance on the edges of time, like dew on the tip of a leaf. - Unknown

The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them. - Bernard M Baruch

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

Anyone who thinks the art of conversation is dead ought to tell a child to go to bed. - Robert Gallagher

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

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

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

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

Leadership: The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. - Dwight D Eisenhower

A blind man can make art if what is in his mind can be passed to another mind in some tangible form. - Sol LeWitt

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece. - Ludwig Erhard

That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward. - Ernest Hemingway

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

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

Drink and dance and laugh and lie,
Love, the reeling midnight through,
For tomorrow we shall die!
(But, alas, we never do.) - Dorothy Parker

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies. - Napoleon Bonaparte

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