"‘Healing,’ Papa would tell me, ‘is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.’" ― W. H. Auden Topic(s): Art More From W. H. Auden "Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead." "It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it." "Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic." More In Art "I was doing these performance art pop music pieces in the city. And they were a bit on the eccentric side I suppose. So people started to call me Gaga after the Queen song ‘Radio Gaga.’"― Lady Gaga "Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail."― Jean Cocteau "There’s some people who are not understanding what Limp Bizkit is about. But, then again, who am I to tell people what they can use art for or how they can interpret it?"― Fred Durst