The history of art is the history of revivals.
Samuel Butler
If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.
Albert Einstein
An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.
Paul Valery
Music is the shorthand of emotion.
Leo Tolstoy
To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.
Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.
The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.
Dale Carnegie
The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
Aristotle
