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To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
Henry Ward Beecher on art

There are no contests in the Art of Peace. A true warrior is invincible because he or she contests with nothing. Defeat means to defeat the mind of contention that we harbor within.
Morihei Ueshiba on art

Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.
Ambrose Bierce on art

Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.
Victor Hugo on art

To my mind the old masters are not art their value is in their scarcity.
Thomas A. Edison on art

Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.
Pablo Picasso on art

Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
Pablo Picasso on art

I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can't help it. It's the truth.
Charlie Chaplin on art

The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.
Erich Fromm on art

We want to answer this classical question, who am I? So I think that most of our works are for art, or whatever we do, including science or religion, tried to answer that question.
Paulo Coelho on art

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

Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.
Sylvia Plath on art

Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn't exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing will ever be the same again. As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the world you are writing science fiction. It is always the art of the possible, never the impossible.
Ray Bradbury on art

Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.
Woody Allen on art

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.
Pablo Picasso on art

So many gods, so many creeds, so many paths that wind and wind while just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox on art

All in the Family was intellectual it was art.
Carroll O'Connor on art

The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such.
Og Mandino on art

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

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
Edmund Burke on art