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“The best of artists hath no thought to show which the stone in its superfluous shell doth not include; to break the marble spell is all the hand that serves the brain can do.”
--Michelangelo Buonarroti“Beauteous art, brought with us from heaven, will conquer nature: so divine a power belongs to him who strives with every nerve. If I was made for art, from childhood given a prey for burning beauty to devour, I blame the mistress I was born to serve.”
--Michelangelo Buonarroti“Form follows function.”
--Louis Sullivan“A picture is a poem without words.”
--Horace“Architecture in general is frozen music.”
–Friedrich von Schelling“Memory is a very frail thing. The written word stands forever.”
--Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi“We know that art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.”
--Picasso"Music is the science of manipulating emotion through sound."
- Angus Gray"Music washes from the soul the dust of everyday life."
- Berthold Auerbach“These are bagpipes. I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, asthmatic pig under his arm. Unfortunately, the man-made sound never equaled the purity the sound achieved by the pig.”
- Alfred Hitchcock“Music is well said to be the speech of angels.”
--Thomas Carlyle“Art is the expression of the profoundest thoughts in the simplest way.”
–Einstein“I cannot live without books.”
–Thomas Jefferson“If a book is worth reading, it is worth buying.”
–John Ruskin“Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.”
–Leonardo da Vinci“Art imitates nature as well as it can, as a pupil follows his master; thus it is a sort of grandchild of God.”
--Dante