Leaf Surgery

Art is the most beautiful of lies. - Claude Debussy

The modern work of art is a symbol. - Herbert Read

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

The best doctor gives the least medicines. - Benjamin Franklin

The way a doctor writes out a subscription. - Archie Bunker

Like that of leaves is a generation of men. - Homer

When fate arrives the physician becomes a fool. - Arabic proverb

A half doctor near is better than a whole one far away. - German Proverb

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. - Pablo Picasso

Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity. - Yoko Ono

Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art. - Claude Debussy

One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art. - Oscar Wilde

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Stand-up comedy is an art form and it dies unless you expand it. - Sam Kinison

She got her good looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon. - Groucho Marx

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

The great art of life is sensation; to feel that we exist, even in pain. - Lord Byron

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

It is through art, and through art only, that we can realize our perfection. - Oscar Wilde

I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough? - Vincent van Gogh

The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you. - Oscar Wilde

Sharing oft leaves less. But with love the more we share, the fuller our hearts. - J. Benson

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. - Pablo Picasso

Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy. - Frank Kafka

First the Doctor told me the good news: I was going to have a disease named after me. - Steve Martin

To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist. - Robert Schumann

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

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better. - Andre Gide

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

Writing is very much a playground - an artistic playground. It's the most fun thing I do. - Shania Twain

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. - Aristotle

My love life is terrible. The last time I was inside a woman was when I visited the Statue of Liberty. - Woody Allen

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

I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast. - Viktor Frankl

'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.' - W H Auden

That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward. - Ernest Hemingway

Everything that happens to us leaves some trace behind; everything contributes imperceptibly to make us what we are. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Outcomes rarely turn on grand gestures or the art of the deal, but on whether you've sent someone a thank-you note. - Bernie Brillstein

The only weapon with which the unconscious patient can immediately retaliate upon the incompetent surgeon is hemorrhage. - William Stewart Halsted

My Doctor told me to watch my drinking. Now I drink in front of a mirror. I drink too much. Way too much. My doctor drew blood. He ran a tab. - Rodney Dangerfield