Creative Vandalism

Wrestling is ballet with violence. - Jesse Ventura

The modern work of art is a symbol. - Herbert Read

Art is anything you can get away with. - Marshall McLuhan

If that's art, I'm a Hottentot! - Harry S Truman

All great art comes from a sense of outrage. - Glenn Close

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

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

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

Timing has a lot to do with the outcome of a rain dance. - Unknown

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

Nothing burns more calories than dancing in 5-inch heels. - Ariana Grande

Mathematical genius and artistic genius touch one another. - Gosta Mittag-Leffler

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

They couldn't find the artist, so they hung the picture. - Unknown

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting. - Sun Tzu

Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability. - William Osler

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

I'm a guy who can't function well in life, but I can in art. - Woody Allen

The role of the artist today is to defend feeling against the machine. - Marty Rubin

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

We have art so that we do not die of reality. Reality is too much with us. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. - John Kenneth Galbraith

I don't want people who want to dance; I want people who have to dance. - George Balanchine

Diplomacy is the art of saying, "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock. - Will Rogers

So the vandals, having wrested Libya from the Romans in this way, made it their own. - Procopius

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

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

I have a wonderful make-up crew. They're the same people restoring the Statue of Liberty. - Bob Hope

I have discovered the art of fooling diplomats. I speak the truth, and they never believe me. - Camillo Di Cavour

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

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

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

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

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living. - Frederic Amiel

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

As an experienced artist, I carry my work like a secret pregnancy. I am always aware of inner life and the need to protect it. - Julia Cameron

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

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

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

People ask about art and commercialism. I think that if someone tries to sell their work at a high price, that is the wrong way of doing it. - Yayoi Kusama