Stoned In The Garden

Dancing is silent poetry. - Simonides

Life is brief, art is long. - Hippocrates

The modern work of art is a symbol. - Herbert Read

Art is a house that tries to be haunted. - Emily Dickinson

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

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

To watch us dance is to hear our hearts speak. - Indian Proverb

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

Politics is the art of controlling your environment. - Hunter S. Thompson

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

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture. - Elvis Costello

A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art. - Paul Cezanne

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

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. - Oscar Wilde

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

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

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

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

The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes. - Tony Blair

Out of suffering comes creativity. You cannot spell painting without pain. - John Lithgow

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

Dancing is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made. - Ted Shawn

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

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

Football isn't a contact sport; it's a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport. - Vince Lombardi

A half finished shawl left on the coffee table isn't a mess; it's an object of art. - Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

If I had a flower for every time I thought of you... I could walk through my garden forever. - Alfred Lord Tennyson

What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying. - Oscar Wilde

The art of art, the glory of expression, and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity. - Walt Whitman

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

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

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

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

We all know that art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. - Pablo Picasso

Love would never be a promise of a rose garden unless it is showered with light of faith, water of sincerity and air of passion. - Unknown

Logic: the art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. - Ambrose Bierce

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

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

We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon - instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today. - Dale Carnegie

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