Art School Graduate

No Sane man will dance. - Cicero

All art is quite useless. - Oscar Wilde

Art is a revolt against fate. - Andre Malraux

My trade and my art is living. - Michel De Montaigne

The painting has a life of its own. - Jackson Pollock

I view art as an inspirational tool. - Thomas Kincade

Politics is the art of the possible. - Otto von Bismarck

Education is the art of making man ethical. - Georg Hegel

The only time I feel alive is when I'm painting. - Andy Warhol

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

An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision. - James M Whistler

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

Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity. - Yoko Ono

Art is the demonstration that the ordinary is extraordinary. - Amedee Ozenfant

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

If you're already walking on thin ice, you might as well dance. - Proverb

Sergio Leone was a big influence on me because of the spaghetti westerns. - Quentin Tarantino

I am a genre lover - everything from spaghetti western to samurai movies. - Quentin Tarantino

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

To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine. - Henry Ward Beecher

Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on. - Robert Frost

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

A long marriage is two people trying to dance a duet and two solos at the same time. - Anne Taylor Fleming

Prophecy: The art and practice of selling one's credibility for future delivery. - Ambrose Bierce

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul and paints his own nature into his pictures. - Henry Ward Beecher

The dance: a minimum of explanation, a minimum of anecdotes, and a maximum of sensations. - Maurice Bejart

Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it. - Laurence J Peter

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

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

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

Because I'm an artist, I can't ever consider myself a nihilist, so I suppose I'm optimistic. - Marilyn Manson

To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way. - E M Forster

I feel strongly that the visual arts are of vast importance. Of course I could be prejudiced. I am a visual art. - Kermit The Frog

Dance as if no one's watching, sing as if no one's listening, and live everyday as if it were your last. - Irish Proverb

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

My girlfriend wants me to stain the new wooden fence in her backyard. So I'm going to eat spaghetti over it for a few weeks. - Rick Lantern

Some men's ambition is art, some men's ambition is fame, some men's ambition is gold. My ambition is the souls of men. - William Booth

My writing philosophy is throwing spaghetti against the wall. That's how I take pictures, too. If I take 100, surely one will be good. - Amanda Peet

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival. - C S Lewis

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