To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.
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To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.
It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful.
I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.
Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words.
A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.
My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.
A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.
Great art picks up where nature ends.
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
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