Hendrik Willem Van Loon on Art / Music
The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress.
Percy Wynham Lewis on Art / Music
Sadistic excess attempts to reach roughly and by harshness what art reaches by fineness.
Khalil Gibran on Art / Music
Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.
Paul Gauguin on Art / Music
In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary; and it is they alone who are masters.
Max Eastman on Art / Music
The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.
Albert Camus on Art / Music
Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.
Charles Horton Cooley on Art / Music
An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.
Christian Cardell Corbet on Art / Music
When one buys some of my artwork I hope it is because they will wish to learn from it and not because they think it will match their drapes!
William Shakespeare on Art / Music
If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die. That strain again! it had a dying fall: O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound 1 That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing a
William Congreve on Art / Music
Music hat charms to soothe a savage breast
To soften rocks, or bend a
knotted oak.