Below Ground

No Sane man will dance. - Cicero

Dancing is silent poetry. - Simonides

Dust thou art, to dust returnest. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

One does not marry art. One ravishes it. - Edgar Degas

Education is the art of making man ethical. - Georg Hegel

The true art of memory is the art of attention. - Samuel Johnson

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

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

Dance first. Think later. It's the natural order. - Samuel Beckett

Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing. - Robert Benchley

Botany: The art of insulting flowers in Greek and Latin. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

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

The great art of life is sensation; to feel that we exist, even in pain. - Lord Byron

If I could tell you what it meant, there would be no point in dancing it. - Isadora Duncan

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

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

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

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

It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art. - Oscar Wilde

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

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul and paints his own nature into his pictures. - Henry Ward Beecher

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

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. - Oscar Wilde

Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level. - Joyce Brothers

We ought to dance with rapture that we might be alive... and part of the living, incarnate cosmos. - D.H. Lawrence

Because I'm an artist, I can't ever consider myself a nihilist, so I suppose I'm optimistic. - Marilyn Manson

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

Work like you don't need the money, dance like no one is watching, and love like you've never been hurt. - Mark Twain

Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message. - Malcolm Muggeridge

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

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

I could dance with you till the cows come home...
on second thought, I'll dance with the cows till you come home. - Groucho Marx

I don't want to be the oldest performer in captivity. I don't want to look like a little old man dancing out there. - Fred Astaire

If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him. - John F Kennedy

It's better to swim in the sea below
Than to swing in the air and feed the crow,
Says jolly Ned Teach of Bristol. - Benjamin Franklin

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

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

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