“Healing,’ Papa would tell me, ‘is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.’”– W. H. Auden Related Quotes “What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art.”– Augustus Saint-Gaudens “The true art of memory is the art of attention.”– Samuel Johnson “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