Driftwood Lion

Life is brief, art is long. - Hippocrates

A great nation deserves great art. - Art Delage

History develops, art stands still. - E.M. Forster

Art is the signature of civilizations. - Beverly Sills

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

All dancing girls are nineteen years old. - Japanese Proverb

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

Life is the art of drawing without an eraser. - John Gardner

When spiders unite, they can tie down a lion. - Ethiopian Proverb

I teach the art of turning anguish into delight. - Georges Bataille

Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life. - Oscar Wilde

God is not interested in your art but, your heart. - Ifeanyi E. Onuoha

Dancing can reveal all the mystery that music conceals. - Charles Baudelaire

Better to be the head of a dog than the tail of a lion. - English Proverb

A chip on the shoulder is a sure sign of wood higher up. - Brigham Young

Dance is a delicate balance between perfection and beauty. - Unknown

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

The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure. - Dale Carnegie

There are short-cuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them. - Vicki Baum

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

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

The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much. - William Hazlitt

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

Yesterday is ashes; tomorrow wood. Only today does the fire burn brightly. - Eskimo Proverb

We have art so that we do not die of reality. Reality is too much with us. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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

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

You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul. - George Bernard Shaw

The practice of art isn't to make a living. It's to make your soul grow. - Kurt Vonnegut

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

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

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

I grew up with six brothers. That's how I learned to dance - waiting for the bathroom. - Bob Hope

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

My love life is terrible. The last time I was inside a woman was when I visited the Statue of Liberty. - Woody Allen

The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up. - Jay Leno

We have to prove beyond the shadow of a doubt that it is talent and training, not color, that makes a ballet dancer. - Arthur Mitchell

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

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 physician should look upon the patient as a besieged city and try to rescue him with every means that art and science place at his command. - Alexander of Tralles