Unknown Artist

No Sane man will dance. - Cicero

Surfing is attitude dancing. - Gerry Lopez

Art is a revolt against fate. - Andre Malraux

Photographing a cake can be art. - Irving Penn

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

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

Dancing with her was like moving a piano. - Ring Lardner

Our humor turns our anger into a fine art. - Mary Kay Blakely

Art is either a plagiarist or a revolutionist. - Paul Gauguin

Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown. - Charles de Gaulle

Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life. - Oscar Wilde

Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough. - Groucho Marx

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. - Pablo Picasso

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

If I could say it in words there would be no reason to paint. - Edward Hopper

There are short-cuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them. - Vicki Baum

We're fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance. - Japanese Proverb

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls. - Pablo Picasso

It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to have to paint it. - Steven Wright

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

Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music. - William Stafford

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

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can. - Danny Kaye

Oh, if it be to choose and call thee mine, love, thou art every day my Valentine! - Thomas Hood

I love contemporary art, although I wouldn't want a pickled shark in my house. - Bruno Tonioli

Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. - Gunter Grass

The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions which have been hidden by the answers. - James Baldwin

There's no one way to dance. And that's kind of my philosophy about everything. - Ellen Degeneres

The most potent and sacred command which can be laid upon any artist is the command: wait. - Iris Murdoch

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

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad. - Salvador Dali

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

Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known. - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. - John Kenneth Galbraith

Outcomes rarely turn on grand gestures or the art of the deal, but on whether you've sent someone a thank-you note. - Bernie Brillstein

The guy who takes a chance, who walks the line between the known and unknown, who is unafraid of failure, will succeed. - Gordon Parks

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

An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation. - Joseph Conrad

You can imagine me as a kid growing up in redneck Texas with ballet shoes, tucking the violin under my arm. I had to fight my way up. - Patrick Swayze

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies. - Napoleon Bonaparte