Art Quotes

Beauty, expression, and the human need to create. Artists and thinkers on why art matters.

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"In geometry lies the poetry of the physical world."
Eratosthenes
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"Just as a sculptor shapes marble, so too does a leader shape the character of their people."
Pericles
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"Art is not merely the imitation of nature, but the perfection of it."
Pericles
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"The art of healing requires both knowledge and compassion."
Galen
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"Medicine is a science, but healing is an art."
Galen
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"The physician's mission is to restore what nature intended."
Galen
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"The art of living is the art of adaptation."
Xenophon
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"A physician must be both artist and scientist."
Galen
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"The physician walks between science and art."
Galen
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"The art of medicine lies not in pills but in understanding."
Galen
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"Art is the daughter of nature"
Herodotus
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"The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start with nature, with an open mind."
Hippocrates
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"Healing is an art, and as in all arts, the artist must be thoroughly trained and disciplined."
Hippocrates
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"Art is the soul of civilization."
Pindar
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"The astronomer learns that observing is an art perfected only through dedicated practice."
Hipparchus
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"The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power."
Thucydides
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"Love is a craftsman of exquisite skill."
Sappho
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"The greatest art is the art of being fully alive."
Sappho
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"The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease."
Hippocrates
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"The art of living well is the greatest art of all."
Hippocrates
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"Art in medicine is knowing what to do when science runs out of answers."
Hippocrates
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"Art elevates the human spirit beyond the limitations of flesh."
Pindar
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"Art allows the soul to express what the tongue cannot articulate."
Pindar
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"In the realm of art, freedom and discipline are partners, not enemies."
Xenophon
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"Art imitates life, but bad art imitates other bad art."
Thucydides
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"Sight is a faculty; seeing is an art."
Herodotus
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"Poetry is the voice of the soul made audible."
Sappho
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"Beauty that does not speak to the soul is merely decoration."
Sappho
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"We are all artists painting our lives with the colors we are given."
Sappho
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"Healing is an art whose foundation is sympathy and whose crown is science."
Hippocrates