Art is the daughter of freedom.
Friedrich Schiller

Great art picks up where nature ends.
Marc Chagall

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.
Laurie Anderson

Without music, life would be a mistake.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.
Plato

An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
Mohandas Gandhi

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
Aristotle

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.
Salvador Dali

Personality is everything in art and poetry.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
Pablo Picasso

To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.
Robert Schumann

Why do people think artists are special? It's just another job.
Andy Warhol



Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.
Leonardo da Vinci