Music, art and literature Quotes

Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine

It’s none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way

The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them

I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat

Libraries are not made, they grow

A reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure until he knows whether the writer of it be a black man or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor

Music, the greatest good that mortals know, and all of heaven we have below

An opera may be allowed to be extravagantly lavish in its decorations, as its only design is to gratify the senses and keep up an indolent attention in the audience

I consider time as an in immense ocean, in which many noble authors are entirely swallowed up

Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn

That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit

Where words fail, music speaks

Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable

Any healthy man can go without food for two days, but not without poetry

A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else

It is from the womb of art that criticism was born

He who pretends to be either painter or engraver without being a master of drawing is an imposter

He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.

The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: The bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really does