Statue Pose

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

Art is either a plagiarist or a revolutionist. - Paul Gauguin

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

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

Magic: An art of converting superstition into coin - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

The art of a people is a true mirror to their minds. - Jawaharlal Nehru

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

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

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

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

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. - Thomas Merton

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

If I could tell you what it meant, there would be no point in dancing it. - Isadora Duncan

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

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

Dance isn't something that can be explained in words; it has to be danced. - Paige Arden

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can inspire. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Oh, if it be to choose and call thee mine, love, thou art every day my Valentine! - Thomas Hood

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

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

When other little girls wanted to be ballet dancers, I kind of wanted to be a vampire. - Angelina Jolie

Transplanting the ballet to the United States is like trying to raise a palm tree in Dakota. - Lincoln Kirsten

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

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

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance. - e e cummings

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

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. - Albert Einstein

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

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

If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him. - John F Kennedy

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

If I'm losing balance in a pose, I stretch higher and God reaches down to steady me. It works every time, and not just in yoga. - T. Guillemets

Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. - Donald Trump

Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other. - Oscar Ameringer

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

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

If it's flipping hamburgers at McDonald's, be the best hamburger flipper in the world. Whatever it is you do you have to master your craft. - Snoop Dogg