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Drama is like a dream, it is not real, but it is really felt.
- Abhinavagupta
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Theater |
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Good art is not what it looks like, but what it does to us.
- Roy Adzak
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Visual Arts |
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Countless unseen details are often the only difference between mediocre and magnificent.
- Anonymous
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Visual Arts |
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Art is the imagination expressed through the senses.
- Anonymous
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Visual Arts |
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Everything in the universe has rhythm. Everything dances.
- Maya Angelou
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Dance |
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First comes the sweat. Then comes the beauty if you're very lucky and have said your prayers.
- George Balanchine
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Dance |
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I don't want people who want to dance, I want people who have to dance.
- George Balanchine
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Dance |
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Dance is music made visible.
- George Balanchine
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Dance |
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A nation creates music - the composer only arranges it.
- Bela Bartok
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Music |
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Genius is childhood recalled at will.
- Charles Baudelaire
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Visual Arts |
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Dancing can reveal all the mystery that music conceals.
- Charles Baudelaire
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Dance |
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The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.
- Mikhail Baryshnikov
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Visual Arts |
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Dance till the stars come down from the rafters. Dance, Dance, Dance till you drop.
- W.H. Auden
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Dance |
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I just dance. I just put my feet in the air and move them around.
- Fred Astaire
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Dance |
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I believe that interpretation should be like a transparent glass, a window for the composer's music.
- Vladimir Ashkenazy
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Music |
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Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
- Berthold Auerbach
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Music |
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The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
- Sir Francis Bacon
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Visual Arts |
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Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself.
- Marcus Aurelius
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Visual Arts |
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There is always music amongst the trees in the garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it.
- M. Aumonier
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Music |
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Dancing is like dreaming with your feet.
- Constanze
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Dance |
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Color in a picture is like enthusiasm in life.
- Vincent Van Gogh
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Visual Arts |
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We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Visual Arts |
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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Literary Arts |
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The only time I feel alive is when I’m painting.
- Vincent Van Gogh
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Visual Arts |
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No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time. It is just that the others are behind the time.
- Martha Graham
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Visual Arts |