Plywood Portrait

Dancing is silent poetry. - Simonides

Life is brief, art is long. - Hippocrates

Politics is the art of the possible. - Otto von Bismarck

Art is the signature of civilizations. - Beverly Sills

The human body is the best work of art. - Jess C. Scott

Dancing with her was like moving a piano. - Ring Lardner

An art thief is a man who takes pictures. - George Carlin

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

I teach the art of turning anguish into delight. - Georges Bataille

An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one. - Charles Horton Cooley

I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting. - Jackson Pollock

Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life. - Oscar Wilde

God is not interested in your art but, your heart. - Ifeanyi E. Onuoha

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery. - Mark Van Doren

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

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

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

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

Opportunity dances with those who are already on the dance floor. - Jackson Brown

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul. - Joseph Addison

If you're already walking on thin ice, you might as well dance. - Proverb

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

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

In an artist's life, death is perhaps not the most difficult thing. - Vincent van Gogh

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

Dance isn't something that can be explained in words; it has to be danced. - Paige Arden

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

Dancing is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made. - Ted Shawn

Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work. - Seth Godin

The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity. - Andre Gide

The dance: a minimum of explanation, a minimum of anecdotes, and a maximum of sensations. - Maurice Bejart

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art. - Eleanor Roosevelt

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

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'd stay away from Ecstasy: this is a drug so strong it makes white people think they can dance. - Lenny Henry

I feel strongly that the visual arts are of vast importance. Of course I could be prejudiced. I am a visual art. - Kermit The Frog

The greatest achievement of humanity is not its works of art, science, or technology, but the recognition of its own dysfunction. - Eckhart Tolle

Who's judging American Idol? Paula Abdul? Paula Abdul judging a singing contest is like Christopher Reeve judging a dance contest. - George Carlin

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