Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form. – Toni Morrison
Art is always criticized and always an outsider gets the blame. – Ville Valo
Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability. – William Osler
Art saved me it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence. – Jeanette Winterson
Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self. – Alfred North Whitehead
To injure an opponent is to injure yourself. To control aggression without inflicting injury is the Art of Peace. – Morihei Ueshiba
A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment. – Beverly Sills
Piano playing is a dying art. I love the fact that I can be one guy with one instrument evoking an emotional and musical experience. – Jon Bon Jovi
Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training. – Lewis Mumford
There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language. – William Osler
The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal. – Pope Paul VI
I love prints of skulls and bones and have some taxidermy – a crow and a rabbit – to remind me of home. I like art and have a big portrait of Bjork. – Ellie Goulding
The art of pleasing is the art of deception. – Luc de Clapiers
Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immutable. This transitory fugitive element, which is constantly changing, must not be despised or neglected. – Charles Baudelaire
It is from the womb of art that criticism was born. – Charles Baudelaire
Modernity signifies the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art of which the other half is the eternal and the immutable. – Charles Baudelaire
Art is not living. It is the use of living. – Audre Lorde
The work of art is a scream of freedom. – Christo
The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body. – Martha Graham
Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which nature herself is animated. – Auguste Rodin
