A Quote by Alejandro Jodorowsky

If art is not a medicine for the society, it is a poison.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Quote Topics

Art Art Is Medicine Poison Society

Quote Author

Alejandro Jodorowsky
Chilean - Novelist
Born: February 17, 1929

Vanity is the poison of agreeableness; yet as poison, when artfully and properly applied, has a salutary effect in medicine, so has vanity in the commerce and society of the world.

Sir Fulke Greville

Retaliation is counter-poison and poison breeds more poison. The nectar of Love alone can destroy the poison of hate.

Mahatma Gandhi

It is medicine, not poison, I offer you.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

The difference between a good medicine and a poison is the dosage.

Laura Huxley

Whether wine is a nourishment, medicine or poison is a matter of dosage

Paracelsus

Art can no longer be art today if it does not reach into the heart of our present culture and work transformatively within it that is, an art which cannot mould society — and through this naturally operate upon the core questions of our society — is not art.

Joseph Beuys

Poison and medicine are often the same thing, given in different proportions

Alice Sebold

We are supposed to call poison medicine and we wonder why we're always sick.

Stefan Molyneux

We profess to teach the principles and practice of medicine, or, in other words, the science and art of medicine. Science is knowledge reduced to principles; art is knowledge reduced to practice. The knowing and doing, however, are distinct. ... Your knowledge, therefore, is useless unless you cultivate the art of healing. Unfortunately, the scientific man very often has the least amount of art, and he is totally unsuccessful in practice; and, on the other hand, there may be much art based on an infinitesimal amount of knowledge, and yet it is sufficient to make its cultivator eminent.

Samuel Wilks

Criticism is like medicine. It’s poison unless carefully administered at the right dose.

Michael Hyatt

The difference between real material poison and intellectual poison is that most material poison is disgusting to the taste, but intellectual poison, which takes the form of cheap newspapers or bad books, can unfortunately sometimes be attractive.

Leo Tolstoy

There is the specter of "realism" that is still haunting Chinese contemporary art - that art is only an instrument, an instrument to reflect society, that it must be useful for society. Also, I have noticed many Western media outlets are very insistent on understanding contemporary art in China through this kind of realist approach. Sometimes I even sense that they are intent on, as we say in China, "picking bones of politics out of an egg of art." Or perhaps they see art as merely an instrument to reflect society.

Wang Jianwei

They abandon the Ambrosial Nectar and turn to poison, they earn poison, and poison is their only wealth.

Harmeet Singh

Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.

Paracelsus

Glory is a heavy burden, a murdering poison, and to bear it is an art. And to have that art is rare.

Oriana Fallaci

We establish no religion in this country, nor will we ever. But we poison our society when we remove its theological underpinnings. We court corruption when we leave society devoid of belief.

Jeff Miller

A Quote by Alejandro Jodorowsky

Quote Topics

Quote Author

Related Quotes

Related Authors