Water Tower Graffiti

Life is brief, art is long. - Hippocrates

The secret of life is in art. - Oscar Wilde

Life calls the tune, we dance. - John Galsworthy

A great nation deserves great art. - Art Delage

It costs nothing to encourage an artist. - Kevin Smith

Any idealism is a proper subject for art. - Lafcadio Hearn

All dancing girls are nineteen years old. - Japanese Proverb

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

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

A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing. - Clive James

Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence. - Joseph Krutch

Logic is neither science nor an art, but a dodge. - Benjamin Jowett

An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one. - Charles Horton Cooley

The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook. - William James

God is not interested in your art but, your heart. - Ifeanyi E. Onuoha

Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace. - Oscar Wilde

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

In life as in dance: Grace glides on blistered feet. - Alice Abrams

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

Dancing: The Highest Intelligence in the Freest Body. - Isadora Duncan

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

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

Can't act. Can sing. Balding. Can dance a little. - MGM Executive

Art is making something out of nothing and selling it. - Frank Zappa

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

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

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

Art in nature is rhythmic and has a horror of constraint. - Robert Delaunay

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

Management is a practice where art, science, and craft meet. - Henry Mintzberg

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul. - Joseph Addison

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

I'm a guy who can't function well in life, but I can in art. - Woody Allen

Life is too short to eat vanilla ice cream and dance with boring men. - Unknown

We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master. - Ernest Hemingway

Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it. - Robert Motherwell

We have art so that we do not die of reality. Reality is too much with us. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. - John Kenneth Galbraith

I don't want people who want to dance; I want people who have to dance. - George Balanchine

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

The practice of art isn't to make a living. It's to make your soul grow. - Kurt Vonnegut

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

Anyone who thinks the art of conversation is dead ought to tell a child to go to bed. - Robert Gallagher

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

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

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order. - Alfred N Whitehead

Football isn't a contact sport; it's a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport. - Vince Lombardi

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

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

I have discovered the art of fooling diplomats. I speak the truth, and they never believe me. - Camillo Di Cavour

It's amazing what you can do with an E in A-Level art, a twisted imagination and a chainsaw. - Damien Hirst

Leadership is the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done. - Vance Packard

Never pay attention to what critics say. Remember, a statue has never been set up in honor of a critic. - Jean Sibelius

Psychiatry is the art of teaching people how to stand on their own two feet while reclining on couches. - Sigmund Freud

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

'Tis not always in a physician's power to cure the sick; at times the disease is stronger than trained art. - Ovid

A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist. - R. Buckminster Fuller

We have to prove beyond the shadow of a doubt that it is talent and training, not color, that makes a ballet dancer. - Arthur Mitchell

The biggest thing separating people from their artistic ambitions is not a lack of talent. It's the lack of a deadline. - Chris Baty

Preaching is not the art of making a sermon and delivering it. Preaching is the art of making a preacher and delivering him. - Bishop Quayle

We all know that art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. - Pablo Picasso

When it began, cubism was a sort of analysis, which was no more painting than the description of physical phenomena was physics. - Juan Gris

To live is to be musical, starting with the blood dancing in your veins. Everything living has a rhythm. Do you feel your music? - Michael Jackson

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