Below Ground

Art is a revolt against fate. - Andre Malraux

Art is the most beautiful of lies. - Claude Debussy

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

Dance can give the inarticulate a voice. - Pamela Brown

It costs nothing to encourage an artist. - Kevin Smith

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

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

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

What is this, an audience or an oil painting? - Milton Berle

The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity. - Douglas Horton

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

We can dance on pinheads till the cows come home. - Alastair Campbell

Good work rarely sells. I believe this of any art. - Arthur W Pinero

In life as in dance: Grace glides on blistered feet. - Alice Abrams

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

The art of government is the organization of idolatry. - George Bernard Shaw

Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory. - Oscar Wilde

Dancing is like bank robbery - it takes split second timing. - Twyla Tharp

I'm a guy who can't function well in life, but I can in art. - Woody Allen

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

There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome. - Andre Gide

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

Italy is the home of art and swindling; home of religion and moral rottenness. - Mark Twain

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. - Pablo Picasso

The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them. - Bernard M Baruch

Dance till the stars come down from the rafters! Dance, Dance, Dance till you drop! - W H Auden

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

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

The man who is ostentatious of his modesty is twin to the statue that wears a fig-leaf. - Mark Twain

Shopping: The fine art of acquiring things you don't need with money you don't have. - Unknown

Leadership is the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done. - Vance Packard

It's not your painting anymore. It stopped being your painting the moment that you finished it. - Jeff Melvoin

A man who thinks too much about his ancestors is like a potato - the best part of him is underground. - Henry Cooper

That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward. - Ernest Hemingway

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

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy. - Groucho Marx

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

Art owes its origin to nature. This beautiful creation supplied the first model, while the original teacher was that divine intelligence. - Giorgio Vasari

Drink and dance and laugh and lie,
Love, the reeling midnight through,
For tomorrow we shall die!
(But, alas, we never do.) - Dorothy Parker

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival. - C S Lewis