Sick Statue

No Sane man will dance. - Cicero

What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art. - Augustus Saint-Gaudens

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

We have art to save ourselves from the truth. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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

The art of love is largely the art of persistence. - Albert Ellis

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing. - Marcus Aurelius

I'm due at the ballet. They're doin' Swoon Lake. - Archie Bunker

I don't own a camera, so I travel with a police sketch artist. - George Carlin

The Iranians and Persians are excellent at the art of negotiation. - Donald Trump

The role of the artist today is to defend feeling against the machine. - Marty Rubin

The art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on. - Henry H Ellis

Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music. - George Carlin

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

Life beats down and crushes the soul, but art reminds you that you have one. - Stella Adler

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. - Emile Zola

Ignorance is a virus. Once it starts spreading, it can only be cured by reason. - Neil Tyson

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

Perspective is to painting what the bridle is to the horse, the rudder to a ship. - Leonardo da Vinci

The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them. - Bernard M Baruch

I should rather men ask why no statue has been erected in my honour, than why one has. - Marcus Porcius Cato

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

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

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better. - Andre Gide

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

Shopping: The fine art of acquiring things you don't need with money you don't have. - Unknown

What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying. - Oscar Wilde

The mission of the artist in an over-technologized society, is to call the old magic back to life. - Tom Robbins

I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast. - Viktor Frankl

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

Just as the bird sings or the butterfly soars, because it is his natural characteristic, so the artist works. - Alma Gluck

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

Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings. - Vicki Baum

Art is made to disturb. Science reassures. There is only one valuable thin in art: the thing you cannot explain. - Georges Braque

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

If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that. - John Lennon

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other. - Voltaire

Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. - Donald Trump

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

Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of words. - Franz Liszt