Resting Bird

The secret of life is in art. - Oscar Wilde

All dancing girls are nineteen years old. - Japanese Proverb

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

We can choose to hate the rain or dance in it. - Joan Marques

I should not believe in a God who does not dance. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

You can dance anywhere, even if only in your heart. - Unknown

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

Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire. - Steven Wright

The one thing that can solve most of our problems is dancing. - James Brown

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

Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability. - William Osler

Stand-up comedy is an art form and it dies unless you expand it. - Sam Kinison

Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark. - Rabindranath Tagore

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

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

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

It is through art, and through art only, that we can realize our perfection. - Oscar Wilde

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

Italy is the home of art and swindling; home of religion and moral rottenness. - Mark Twain

Though what bird in the best of circumstances does not look a little stricken? - Lorrie Moore

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

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease. - Voltaire

It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art. - Oscar Wilde

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. - Lanston Hughes

I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself. - Mihkail Baryshnikov

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

The man who is ostentatious of his modesty is twin to the statue that wears a fig-leaf. - Mark Twain

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

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

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

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

Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself. - Bertrand Russell

Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and acitivty of man's nature. - Robert South

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

Go figure a crazy, mixed-up country where ballet outsells boxing. I wouldn't be surprised if their wrestling was on the level. - Bob Hope