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Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent.

- Victor Hugo

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Print The history of a people is found in its songs.
- George Jellinek 		Music
Print A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.
- Eugene Ionesco 		Visual Arts
Print After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible, is music.
- Aldous Huxley 		Music
Print Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent.
- Victor Hugo 		Music
Print The camera, if it’s lucky, may tell a different truth to drawing - but not a truer one.
- Robert Hughes 		Visual Arts
Print Art is not a thing; it is a way.
- Elbert Hubbard 		Visual Arts
Print Art is... a question mark in the minds of those who want to know what's happening.
- Aaron Howard 		Visual Arts
Print If I could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.
- Edward Hopper 		Visual Arts
Print Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist.
- Edward Hopper 		Visual Arts
Print Talent! What they call talent is nothing but the capacity for doing continuous work in the right way.
- Winslow Homer 		Visual Arts
Print Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes 		Visual Arts
Print A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
- Hans Hofmann 		Visual Arts
Print The whole world, as we experience it visually, comes to us through the mystic realm of color.
- Hans Hofmann 		Visual Arts
Print A work of art is a world in itself, reflecting senses and emotions of the artist’s world.
- Hans Hofman 		Visual Arts
Print Style is something you can use, and you can be like a magpie, just taking what you want.
- David Hockney 		Visual Arts
Print Life is short, art is long...
- Hippocrates 		Visual Arts
Print People who make music together cannot be enemies, at least while the music lasts.
- Paul Hindemith 		Music
Print Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes.
- Thomas Wentworth Higginson 		Visual Arts
Print Nothing you write, if you hope to be any good, will ever come out as you first hoped.
- Lillian Hellman 		Literary Arts
Print The greatest masterpieces were once only pigments on a palette.
- Henry S. Haskins 		Visual Arts
Print Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought.
- E.Y. Harbug 		Music
Print All the sounds of the earth are like music.
- Oscar Hammerstein 		Music
Print A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges.
- Benny Green 		Music
Print Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same.
- Günter Grass 		Visual Arts
Print I know only two tunes; one of them is "Yankee Doodle", and the other isn't.
- Ulysess S. Grant 		Music
Print No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time. It is just that the others are behind the time.
- Martha Graham 		Visual Arts
Print Dance is the hidden language of the soul.
- Martha Graham 		Dance
Print Great dancers are not great because of their technique; they are great because of their passion.
- Martha Graham 		Dance
Print The essence of drawing is the line exploring space.
- Andy Goldsworthy 		Visual Arts
Print Art is a part of the rebellion against the realities of its unfulfilled desire.
- Emma Goldman 		Visual Arts
Print Color in a picture is like enthusiasm in life.
- Vincent Van Gogh 		Visual Arts
Print The only time I feel alive is when I’m painting.
- Vincent Van Gogh 		Visual Arts
Print We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 		Visual Arts
Print Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 		Literary Arts
Print Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
- Paul Gauguin 		Visual Arts
Print The flat sound of my wooden clogs on the cobblestones, deep, hollow and powerful, is the note I seek in my painting.
- Paul Gauguin 		Visual Arts
Print I shut my eyes in order to see.
- Paul Gauguin 		Visual Arts
Print A painting is never finished - it simply stops in interesting places.
- Paul Gardner 		Visual Arts
Print If you are looking for something to be brave about consider fine arts.
- Robert Frost 		Visual Arts
Print To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
- Anatole France 		Visual Arts
Print Genius is another word for magic, and the whole point of magic is that it is inexplicable.
- Margot Fonteyn 		Theater
Print I do not want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.
- Carrie Fisher 		Theater
Print Dance is so important in the world. It needs no language. Our bodies speak a language of its own.
- Ibrahim Farrah 		Dance
Print Move your neck according to the music.
- Ethiopian Proverb 		Dance
Print Playing "bop" is like playing Scrabble with all the vowels missing.
- Duke Ellington 		Music
Print Music is my mistress, and she plays second fiddle to no one.
- Duke Ellington 		Music
Print Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
- Albert Einstein 		Visual Arts
Print It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
- Albert Einstein 		Visual Arts
Print If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.
- Albert Einstein 		Literary Arts
Print The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious, the source of all art and science.
- Albert Einstein
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