Below Ground

Life calls the tune, we dance. - John Galsworthy

Photographing a cake can be art. - Irving Penn

Every artist was first an amateur. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Politics is the art of the possible. - Otto von Bismarck

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

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

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

Any idealism is a proper subject for art. - Lafcadio Hearn

Dance is the hidden language of the soul. - Martha Graham

Our humor turns our anger into a fine art. - Mary Kay Blakely

I'm not making art, I'm making sushi. - Masaharu Morimoto

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

Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence. - Joseph Krutch

Dancing: The Highest Intelligence in the Freest Body. - Isadora Duncan

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

An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision. - James M Whistler

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

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

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

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

I'm due at the ballet. They're doin' Swoon Lake. - Archie Bunker

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

We're fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance. - Japanese Proverb

If you're already walking on thin ice, you might as well dance. - Proverb

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

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

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

There's no one way to dance. And that's kind of my philosophy about everything. - Ellen Degeneres

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

Boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music, no choreography, and the dancers hit each other. - Jack Handey

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

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

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

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

You can imagine me as a kid growing up in redneck Texas with ballet shoes, tucking the violin under my arm. I had to fight my way up. - Patrick Swayze

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

People ask about art and commercialism. I think that if someone tries to sell their work at a high price, that is the wrong way of doing it. - Yayoi Kusama

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

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