Art
Pablo Picasso
The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider’s web.
Pablo Picasso
When I was the age of these children I could draw like Raphael: it took me many years to learn how to draw like these children.
Pablo Picasso
No, painting is not made to decorate apartments. It’s an offensive and defensive weapon against the enemy.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
The whole, though it be long, stands almost complete and finished in my mind, so that I can survey it, like a fine picture or a beautiful statue, at a glance. Nor do I hear in my imagination the parts successively, but I hear them, as it were, all at once.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Melody is the essence of music. I compare a good melodist to a fine racer, and counterpoints to hack post-horses.
Montaigne
It could be said of me that in this book I have only made up a bunch of other men’s flowers, providing of my own only the string that ties them together.
John Milton
Blest pair of Sirens, pledges of heaven’s joy, Sphere-born harmonious sisters, Voice, and Verse.
Henri Matisse
What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter … a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue.
