Music, art and literature Quotes

Words are only painted fire; a book is the fire itself.

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

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

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing

A room without books is like a life without meaning

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new after all.

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

The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.

Music fills the infinite between two souls

In order to write about life, first you must live it.

As a writer, you should not judge, you should understand

Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art

A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession

A picture is worth a thousand words

Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame

Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands