Plywood Portrait

Surfing is attitude dancing. - Gerry Lopez

Art is the most beautiful of lies. - Claude Debussy

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

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

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

Politics is the art of controlling your environment. - Hunter S. Thompson

White. A blank page or canvas. So many possibilities. - Stephen Sondheim

Talking about music is like dancing about architecture. - Steve Martin

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

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art. - Susan Sontag

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday. - Don Marquis

Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art. - Claude Debussy

Life doesn't imitate art; it imitates bad television. - Woody Allen

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

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

Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between. - David Letterman

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

Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it. - Robert Motherwell

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known. - Oscar Wilde

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

Grantartica: The cold, isolated place where art companies dwell without funding - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

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

Prophecy: The art and practice of selling one's credibility for future delivery. - Ambrose Bierce

When other little girls wanted to be ballet dancers, I kind of wanted to be a vampire. - Angelina Jolie

I grew up with six brothers. That's how I learned to dance - waiting for the bathroom. - Bob Hope

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

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

Never pay attention to what critics say. Remember, a statue has never been set up in honor of a critic. - Jean Sibelius

'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.' - W H Auden

Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings. - Vicki Baum

Art is made to disturb. Science reassures. There is only one valuable thin in art: the thing you cannot explain. - Georges Braque

We've never been cool, we're hot. Irish people are Italians who can't dress, Jamaicans who can't dance. - Bono

Look inside. That way lies dancing to the melodies spun out by your own heart. This is a symphony. All the rest are jingles. - Anna Quindlen

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing. - William James

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

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other. - Voltaire

Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen. - Pablo Picasso

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

The only happy artist is a dead artist, because only then you can't change. After I die, I'll probably come back as a paintbrush. - Sylvester Stallone