Quotes About Art

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears form the eyes of woman.

Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.

Music is a higher revelation than philosophy.

Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?

What humiliation when someone who stood next to me heard a flute in the distance and I heard nothing, or when someone heard the shepherd boy singing and again I heard nothing. Such misfortune brought me to the edge of despair, and I might have brought an end to my life—only my art held me back.

Music is mediator between spiritual and sensual life.

The true artist is not proud, he unfortunately sees that art has no limits; he feels darkly how far he is from the goal; and though he may be admired by others, he is sad not to have reached that point to which his better genius only appears as a distant, guiding sun. I would, perhaps, rather come to you and your people, than to many rich folk who display inward poverty.

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

I despise a world which does not feel that music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

Don't only practice your art, but force your way into it's secrets, for it and knowledge can raise men to the divine.

The true artist has no pride. He sees unfortunately that art has no limits; he has a vague awareness of how far he is from reaching his goal; and while others may perhaps admire him, he laments the fact that he has not yet reached the point whither his better genius only lights the way for him like a distant sun.

Such incidents brought me to the verge of despair, but little more and I would have put an end to my life - only art it was that withheld me, and it seemed impossible to leave the world until I had produced all that I felt called upon me to produce, and so I endured this wretched existence.

Everything that is called life should be sacrificed to the sublime and be a sanctuary of art

Dem Manne muß die Musik Feuer aus dem Geist schlagen.

Is it not beautiful?

La música es el vino que inspira nuevas creaciones y yo soy Baco que prensa este delicioso vino para los hombres y los embriaga espiritualmente

La música es una manifestación superior a toda sabiduría de la filosofía.

Music is ... A higher revelation than all Wisdom & Philosophy

Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets, for it and knowledge can raise men to the divine.

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.

Music is like a dream. One that I cannot hear.

No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist.

Only stilted pedants can conceive the idea that there are absolute norms to tell what is beautiful and what is not. They try to derive from the works of the past a code of rules with which, as they fancy, the writers and artists of the future should comply. But the genius does not cooperate with the pundit.

Art isn't what you see. It's what you remember.