A painting is never finished, it simply stops in interesting places -- Paul Gardner

Art that arises out of the inner landscape and is connected to our actual lived experience illuminates the darkness and heals the soul -- Daria Halprin

Be a first rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of someone else. -- Judy Garland

Better is the enemy of good. -- Anon.

Each bird must sing with his own throat. -- Henrik Ibsen

Every creative act requires elimination and simplification. Simplification results from a realization of what is essential. -- Hans Hoffmann

Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity. -- William Hazlitt, 'On Beauty'

I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art. -- Carrie Fisher

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

I have yet to see an older, chubbier dancer who could not punt a younger dancer off the stage with the flick of a hip. I'm good now, but when I'm 50, I'll be DANGEROUS, and some 24 year-- old cutie pie can darn well wait her turn! -- Ghazallah

I think women see me on the cover of magazines and think I never have a pimple or bags under my eyes. You have to realize that's after two hours of hair and makeup, plus retouching. Even I don't wake up looking like Cindy Crawford. -- Cindy Crawford

There is a beauty in simple, clean execution, in using a movement in it's purest, simplest form, that transforms the dancer. There is a joy and grace in simplicity that is more powerful than any complex ornamentation. When there is no camouflage, no busy distraction, it is the dancer themselves that is revealed. -- Aziza Sa'id

Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity. -- Charles Mingus

Not everyone in the world has to be your fan, right? -- Ozel The Bellydancer In You:

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. -- Leonardo da Vinci

So many women just don't know how great they really are. They come to us all vogue outside and vague on the inside. -- Mary Kay Ash, founder of Mary Kay cosmetics

Taking joy in life is a woman's best cosmetic. -- Rosalind Russell

The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak. -- Hans Hoffman

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. -- Albert Einstein, 'What I Believe'

The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day runs through the world and dances in rhythmic measures... -- unknown

There is no excellent beauty but has some strangeness in it -- unknown

There is nothing mysterious about originality, nothing fantastic. Originality is merely the step beyond. -- Louis Danz

They always copy what's least important about your work. -- Abstract Expressionist Willem de Kooning, on the topic of copying another's style

To live is to dance; to dance is to live. -- Snoopy (the dog) from the late, great, Charles Shultz' cartoon strip Peanuts

Use what talents you have; the woods would have little music if no birds sang their song except those who sang best. -- Reverend Oliver G. Wilson

What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful. -- Sappho

You're only young once, but you can always be beautiful. -- anon