Man At Work

Life is brief, art is long. - Hippocrates

Surfing is attitude dancing. - Gerry Lopez

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

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

All dancing girls are nineteen years old. - Japanese Proverb

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

We have art to save ourselves from the truth. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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

Truth is simple, requiring neither study nor art. - Ammian

The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook. - William James

Love the art in yourself, not yourself in the art. - Constantin Stanislavski

No one should have to dance backwards all their lives. - Jill Ruckelshaus

Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing. - Robert Benchley

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. - Pablo Picasso

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

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

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

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

A really well made buttonhole is the only link between art and nature. - Oscar Wilde

Anyone who says you can't see a thought simply doesn't know art. - Wynetka Ann Reynolds

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

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

I don't want people who want to dance; I want people who have to dance. - George Balanchine

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

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

Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. - Gunter Grass

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

I have a wonderful make-up crew. They're the same people restoring the Statue of Liberty. - Bob Hope

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

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

We ought to dance with rapture that we might be alive... and part of the living, incarnate cosmos. - D.H. Lawrence

The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic slice of truth, wisdom, is dying out. - Walter Benjamin

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

You can't dance at two weddings at the same time; nor can you sit on two horses with one behind. - Yiddish Proverb

Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned. - George Balanchine

He who would learn to fly on day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other. - Voltaire

Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor. - Andre Gide

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