Stoned In The Garden

Art is a revolt against fate. - Andre Malraux

Life calls the tune, we dance. - John Galsworthy

Art is the most beautiful of lies. - Claude Debussy

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

What is this, an audience or an oil painting? - Milton Berle

Failure is another stepping stone to greatness. - Oprah Winfrey

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

I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting. - Jackson Pollock

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

Good work rarely sells. I believe this of any art. - Arthur W Pinero

Ballet is good, because it makes you stand up tall. - Carine Roitfeld

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

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

Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven. - Henry Ward Beecher

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

Before they invented drawing boards, what did they go back to? - George Carlin

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport. - Julia Child

Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. - Aristotle

Tact is the art of convincing people that they know more than you do. - Raymond Mortimer

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

The art of conversation is the art of hearing as well as of being heard. - William Hazlitt

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

As the sculptor devotes himself to wood and stone, I would devote myself to my soul. - Toyohiko Kagawa

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

A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left. - Alexander Pope

Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone. - Jorge Luis Borges

I'm proud of my Irish heritage and culture and this show will feature a lot of Irish dancing. - Michael Flatley

Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it. - Dwight D Eisenhower

Model Wife: One who, when she spades the garden, picks up the fish worms and saves them for her husband - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Art is a human activity having for its purpose the transmission to others of the highest and best feelings. - Leo Tolstoy

Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new. - Ursula K. Leguin

I don't think much of a dance step where the girl looks like she was being carried out of a burning building. - Kin Hubbard

'Tis not always in a physician's power to cure the sick; at times the disease is stronger than trained art. - Ovid

We've never been cool, we're hot. Irish people are Italians who can't dress, Jamaicans who can't dance. - Bono

Preaching is not the art of making a sermon and delivering it. Preaching is the art of making a preacher and delivering him. - Bishop Quayle

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing. - William James

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

The diamond has been always esteemed the rarest stone, and the most precious of all: among the ancients it was called the stone of reconciliation. - Lewis Vertoman