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The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.

The new job of art is to sit on the wall and get more expensive.

I am not a great cook, I am not a great artist, but I love art, and I love food, so I am the perfect traveller.

Art must take reality by surprise.

What you have now is a Hollywood that is pure poison. Hollywood was a central place in the history of art in the 20th century: it was human idealism preserved. And then, like any great place, it collapsed, and it collapsed into the most awful machinery in the world.

I have a small house so I borrow everything except art, that is what I love.

I think people should be given a test much like driver's tests as to whether they are capable of being parents! It is an art form. I talk a lot. And I think a lot. And I draw a lot. But never in a million years would I have been a parent. That is just work that is too hard.

I owe much to mother. She had an expert's understanding, but also approached art emotionally.

For me, pointing and clicking my phone is absolutely fine. People say that is not the art of photography but I do not agree.

Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.

Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.

For as long as I can remember I have suffered from a deep feeling of anxiety which I have tried to express in my art.

If you cannot learn to love real art at least learn to hate sham art.

The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.

Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art.

Fashion often starts off beautiful and becomes ugly, whereas art starts off ugly sometimes and becomes beautiful.

The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.

Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist.

What matters poverty? What matters anything to him who is enamoured of our art? Does he not carry in himself every joy and every beauty?

Film is a very young art that is still evolving. Soon, we shall reach a balance between content and technology.