Art Quotes

"Music is always a commentary on society" "Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. Music is the best" "The most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying." "Art tells you what's beyond, without explicitly telling you" "Writing is nothing more than a guided dream" "An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose" "The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable." "The only good thing ever to come out of religion was the music" "Perhaps the mission of an artist is to interpret beauty to people the beauty within themselves" "A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom." "Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion" "You are the music while the music lasts" "If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn" "I would rather be stricken blind than to live without expression of mind" "This is a perfect example of why it is so difficult to be a singer and not a poet." "The creative mind plays with the objects it loves" "As artists and professionals, it is our obligation to enact our own internal revolution, a private insurrection inside our own skulls." "You write in order to change the world ... if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change it." "There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it" "Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm"