Music, art and literature Quotes

You sell him a whole new life.

Books are not merely books, they are the life blood of master spirits.

Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but getting it onto paper is something that unfortunately doesn't go as readily as looking.

This story is really nothing at all, and the scratch is nothing too, but from one thing and another you'll perhaps understand what I mean, namely that of late everything had a je ne sais quoi that made one feel like scribbling it down on paper.

Antiquity! thou wondrous charm, what art thou? that, being nothing, art every thing!

To lose a volume to C. carries some sense and meaning in it.

The poets took them in hand from infancy, and made them the real and immortal things they are.

What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.

Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course

Without music, life would be a mistake

Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.

Music fills the infinite between two souls

A picture is worth a thousand words

The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection

The history of art is the history of revivals

Life imitates art far more than art imitates life

My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.

All art is but imitation of nature

Art is the proper task of life

The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.