Below Ground

Art is a revolt against fate. - Andre Malraux

Vision is the art of seeing things invisible. - Jonathan Swift

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

Logic is neither science nor an art, but a dodge. - Benjamin Jowett

Trapeze Artist: A guy who gets the hang of things. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

The art of being a slave is to rule one's master. - Diogenes

The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery. - Francis Bacon

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

One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art. - Oscar Wilde

The new job of art is to sit on the wall and get more expensive. - Robert Hughes

I don't own a camera, so I travel with a police sketch artist. - George Carlin

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls. - Pablo Picasso

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

The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes. - Tony Blair

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

Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing. - Ralph Richardson

Life beats down and crushes the soul, but art reminds you that you have one. - Stella Adler

I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough? - Vincent van Gogh

An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have. - Andy Warhol

Humour is a rubber sword - it allows you to make a point without drawing blood. - Mary Hirsch

Jealousy is the art of counting someone else's blessings instead of your own. - Unknown

Perspective is to painting what the bridle is to the horse, the rudder to a ship. - Leonardo da Vinci

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

A long marriage is two people trying to dance a duet and two solos at the same time. - Anne Taylor Fleming

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

I should rather men ask why no statue has been erected in my honour, than why one has. - Marcus Porcius Cato

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

Writing is very much a playground - an artistic playground. It's the most fun thing I do. - Shania Twain

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

In my house on the ceilings I have paintings of the rooms above, so I never have to go upstairs. - Steven Wright

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

The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient, whilst Mother Nature takes care of the cure. - Voltaire

The mission of the artist in an over-technologized society, is to call the old magic back to life. - Tom Robbins

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

What's the earth with all its art, verse, music, worth -
Compared with love, found, gained, and kept? - Robert Browning

A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist. - R. Buckminster Fuller

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

We all know that art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. - Pablo Picasso

Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting, or living itself, which is the greatest art of all. - Ray Bradbury

Go figure a crazy, mixed-up country where ballet outsells boxing. I wouldn't be surprised if their wrestling was on the level. - Bob Hope