Forest Guardian

Art is a revolt against fate. - Andre Malraux

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

A great nation deserves great art. - Art Delage

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

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

The true art of memory is the art of attention. - Samuel Johnson

Dance first. Think later. It's the natural order. - Samuel Beckett

The art of being a slave is to rule one's master. - Diogenes

The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery. - Francis Bacon

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

Life doesn't imitate art; it imitates bad television. - Woody Allen

Painting is stronger than me, it makes me do its bidding. - Pablo Picasso

They couldn't find the artist, so they hung the picture. - Unknown

Art doesn't reproduce the visible but rather makes it visible. - Paul Klee

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

If a tree falls in the forest and no one hears, does it make a sound? - Unknown

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known. - Oscar Wilde

To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy. - Will Durant

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

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

An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have. - Andy Warhol

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

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

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

I have a wonderful make-up crew. They're the same people restoring the Statue of Liberty. - Bob Hope

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

Visual storytelling of one kind or another has been around since cavemen were drawing on the walls. - Frank Darabont

A creative artist works on his next composition because he was not satisfied with his previous one. - Dmitri Shostakovich

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

Build. Destroy. Rebuild. I've mastered the art of bouncing back. Now to master the art of not having to. - Unknown

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

Despite all our toil and progress, the art of medicine still falls somewhere between trout casting and spook writing. - Ben Hecht

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living. - Frederic Amiel

I don't want to be the oldest performer in captivity. I don't want to look like a little old man dancing out there. - Fred Astaire

There comes a stage at which a man would rather die cleanly by a bullet than by the unknown terror of the phantom in the forest. - Tahir Shah

The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind. - Paracelsus

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

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

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