Ludwig van Beethoven
“Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?”
Armistead Maupin
“Being in love is the only transcendent experience.”
Georges Simenon
“The lake and the mountains have become my landscape, my real world.”
Susan Sontag
“Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.”
Paul Walker
“I think my mom put it best. She said, ‘Little girls soften their daddy’s hearts.'”
Frank Zappa
“Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.”
Carl Sandburg
“Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and…
Gordon Brown
“I’m a father; that’s what matters most. Nothing matters more.”
Gwendolyn Brooks
“Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.”
Wynton Marsalis
“We looked up to our father. He still is much greater than us.”
Thomas S. Monson
“Choose your love, Love your choice.”
Publilius Syrus
“Each day is the scholar of yesterday.”
Gilbert Parker
“Imagination is at the root of much that passes for love.”
Arnold H. Glasow
“A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.”
Beverly Sills
“Art is the signature of civilizations.”
Heraclitus
“You cannot step into the same river twice.”
Leo Tolstoy
“Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.”
Carl von Clausewitz
“The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.”
M. C. Escher
“Are you really sure that a floor can’t also be a ceiling?”
Langston Hughes
“Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid…
Charlotte Bronte
“Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“Swans sing before they die – ’twere no bad thing should certain persons die before…
Dorothy Thompson
“To have felt too much is to end in feeling nothing.”
Amy Lowell
“Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of…
Bertolt Brecht
“Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.”
William Morris
“Give me love and work – these two only.”
Lillian Hellman
“Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.”
Thomas Browne
“All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.”
Quintilian
“The perfection of art is to conceal art.”
Karl A. Menninger
“One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.”