Leaf Surgery

Art is the most beautiful of lies. - Claude Debussy

He lights up a room when he leaves it. - Henny Youngman

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

I'm not making art, I'm making sushi. - Masaharu Morimoto

The doctor is to be feared more than the disease. - French Proverb

A little chocolate a day keeps the doctor at bay. - Marcia Carrington

The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook. - William James

Politics is the art of controlling your environment. - Hunter S. Thompson

The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery. - Francis Bacon

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower. - Albert Camus

Art is making something out of nothing and selling it. - Frank Zappa

Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory. - Oscar Wilde

Painting is stronger than me, it makes me do its bidding. - Pablo Picasso

In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport. - Julia Child

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

My doctor gave me two weeks to live. I hope they're in August. - Ronnie Shakes

The patient is not likely to recover who makes the doctor his heir. - Thomas Fuller

There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome. - Andre Gide

The art of conversation is the art of hearing as well as of being heard. - William Hazlitt

The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much. - William Hazlitt

Out of suffering comes creativity. You cannot spell painting without pain. - John Lithgow

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. - Emile Zola

The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity. - Andre Gide

Prophecy: The art and practice of selling one's credibility for future delivery. - Ambrose Bierce

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order. - Alfred N Whitehead

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

Shopping: The fine art of acquiring things you don't need with money you don't have. - Unknown

A man has reached middle age when he is warned to slow down by his doctor instead of the police. - Unknown

The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient, whilst Mother Nature takes care of the cure. - Voltaire

The man who leaves money to charity in his will is only giving away what no longer belongs to him. - Voltaire

Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it. - Dwight D Eisenhower

Even if the doctor does not give you a year ... make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week. - Robert Louis Stevenson

My illness is due to my doctor's insistence that I drink milk, a whitish fluid they force down helpless babies. - WC Fields

The minute there's a map, there is no art. Paint by numbers is not art. Paint by numbers is a mechanical activity. - Seth Godin

We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves. - Buddha

As an experienced artist, I carry my work like a secret pregnancy. I am always aware of inner life and the need to protect it. - Julia Cameron

Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. - Donald Trump

Art owes its origin to nature. This beautiful creation supplied the first model, while the original teacher was that divine intelligence. - Giorgio Vasari

People ask about art and commercialism. I think that if someone tries to sell their work at a high price, that is the wrong way of doing it. - Yayoi Kusama

A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct. - Samuel Butler