The Quote

Category 3: The World and It's Culture

Category 3: The World and It's Culture

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

Thomas Merton

If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

Vincent Van Gogh

An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.

James Whistler

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.

Oscar Wilde

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

Pablo Picasso

A picture is worth a thousand words. -Napoleon Bonaparte

Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Aristotle

A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.

Albert Camus

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.

Friedrich Nietzsche

A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires.

Hedy Lamarr

A picture is a poem without words.

Horace

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.

Twyla Tharp

Without music, life would be a mistake.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

Scott Adams

You don't take a photograph, you make it.

Ansel Adams

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

Henry David Thoreau

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

Oscar Wilde

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

Oscar Wilde

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.

Michelangelo

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

Albert Einstein

One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.

Bob Marley

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

I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me-like food or water.

Ray Charles

If music be the food of love, play on.

William Shakespeare

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

Aldous Huxley

I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music.

Billy Joel

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

Victor Hugo

Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.

Jimi Hendrix

In music the passions enjoy themselves.

Friedrich Nietzsche