Music, art and literature Quotes

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

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

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

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

One may do whatever one likes in art: the only thing is to make sure that one does not like it

When music technology takes the place of musicianship, it's time to pull the plug

Who hears music, feels his solitude peopled at once

A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably

If I had listened to the critics I'd have died drunk in the gutter

An artist's flair is sometimes worth a scientist's brains

There is nothing new in art except talent

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

I am fit for nothing but literature

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

If poetry comes not as naturally as the leaves to a tree, it had better not come at all

Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject