Below Ground

Photographing a cake can be art. - Irving Penn

Half the people you know are below average. - Steven Wright

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

To watch us dance is to hear our hearts speak. - Indian Proverb

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

Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough. - Groucho Marx

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

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

Art in nature is rhythmic and has a horror of constraint. - Robert Delaunay

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

Tact is the art of convincing people that they know more than you do. - Raymond Mortimer

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. - Thomas Merton

Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart go together. - John Ruskin

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance. - George Bernard Shaw

To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine. - Henry Ward Beecher

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

Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on. - Robert Frost

Propaganda is the art of persuading others of what you don't believe yourself. - Abba Eban

Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid. - Walter Winchell

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

The truest expression of a people is in its dance and in its music. Bodies never lie. - Agnes De Mille

Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experience treacherous, judgment difficult. - Hypocrites

I like to put on a wig or a fake mustache and do something silly with friends, do a little dance. - Tom Lenk

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

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

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. - Albert Einstein

Art is a human activity having for its purpose the transmission to others of the highest and best feelings. - Leo Tolstoy

It is our art that has an opportunity to leave a footprint in the sand. They don't wrap fish in our work. - Hugh N Jacobsen

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 make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way. - E M Forster

'Tis not always in a physician's power to cure the sick; at times the disease is stronger than trained art. - Ovid

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

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

Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words. - Robert G Ingersoll

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

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

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

I adore art. When I am alone with my notes, my heart pounds and the tears stream from my eyes, and my emotion and my joys are too much to bear. - Guiseppe Verdi

Humility is becoming a lost art, but it's not difficult to practice. It means that you realize that others have been involved in your success. - Harvey Mackay

Art is the window to man's soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see the man within. - Claudia Johnson