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Vincent van GoghI am working from morning to evening, brimming with energy. I'm fencing and wrestling with the sun.
Claude MonetMelody and harmony should be simply tools in the hands of the artist, with which he creates music.
Giuseppe VerdiIf you find a book you really want to read but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.
Toni MorrisonMusic must never offend the ear, even in most horrendous situations, but must always be pleasing.
Wolfgang Amadeus MozartI'd write of people and places like I knew, and I'd make my characters talk everyday English.
L.M. MontgomeryI used to go and flatten my nose against that window and absorb all I could of his art. It changed my life.
Mary CassattThank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
Beatrix PotterHave nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.
William MorrisThe music of the people is like a rare and lovely flower growing amidst encroaching weeds.
Antonín DvořákWhy do so many of us try to explain the beauty of music, thus depriving it of its mystery?
Leonard BernsteinI figured out that my passion is not really for music. My passion is actually for people.
Yo-Yo MaIf Poetry comes not as naturally as the leaves to a tree, it had better not come at all.
John KeatsWe want our sound to go into the soul of the audience, and see if it can awaken some little thing in their minds.
Jimi HendrixMusic expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
Victor HugoOh, how beautiful music is; so often it is my consolation when I would like to cry.
Clara SchumannFiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.
Robert Louis StevensonEvery genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun.
Ralph Waldo EmersonSometimes I am so full of music, and so overflowing with melody, that I find it simply impossible to write down anything.
Robert SchumannFine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.
John RuskinBeauty beyond thought everywhere, beneath, above, made and being made forever.
John MuirI'll paint what I see -- what the flower is to me but I'll paint it big.
Georgia O'KeeffeYou cannot force ideas. Successful ideas are the result of slow growth.
Alexander Graham BellRhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul.
PlatoDo not merely practice your art, but force your way into its secrets.
Ludwig van BeethovenIf you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
Henry David ThoreauThere are simply two kinds of music, good music and the other kind.
Duke EllingtonYou can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.
Maya AngelouA book on nature should produce an impression like nature itself.
Alexander von HumboldtWhen jazz is played in another nation, it is called American.
George GershwinThe greatest thing by far is to have a command of metaphor.
AristotleThe more the marble wastes, the more the statue grows.
MichelangeloMy music is best understood by children and animals.
Igor StravinskyI was so happy to have some place to blow my horn.
Louis ArmstrongIt is in general the unexplored that attracts us.
Murasaki ShikibuI never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.
Frida KahloI obey nature, I never presume to command her.
Auguste RodinThe artist is the creator of beautiful things.
Oscar WildeImagination is more important than knowledge.
Albert EinsteinThe dream has to be translated into reality.
Anaïs NinMusic is the universal language of mankind.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowFor me, music and life are all about style.
Miles DavisWhere words fail, sounds can often speak.
Hans Christian AndersenIt's kind of fun to do the impossible.
Walt DisneyBooks, the children of the brain.
Jonathan SwiftI was born with music inside me.
Ray CharlesEquations are just the boring part of mathematics. I attempt to see things in terms of geometry.
Stephen HawkingWhen you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.
George Washington CarverA painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.
Leopold StokowskiI find out what the world needs. Then, I go ahead and invent it.
Thomas EdisonTo play great music, you must keep your eyes on a distant star.
Yehudi MenuhinI just tried to do what I heard the horns in the band doing.
Ella FitzgeraldAll styles are good except the boring kind.
VoltaireMelody is the essence of music.Wolfgang Amadeus MozartModern taste calls for music that is concise, condensed, and pithy.Antonín DvořákA thing of beauty is a joy forever.John KeatsIf it sounds good it IS good.Duke EllingtonSimplicity is the essential, vital element of description.Alexander von HumboldtI invent nothing, I rediscover.Auguste RodinThe poet is one who is able to keep the fresh vision of the child alive.Anaïs NinWhen we do fantasy, we must not lose sight of reality.Walt DisneyTo invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.Thomas EdisonNothing must be too low or too insignificant for the musician.Antonín DvořákFor every laugh, there should be a tear.Walt Disney