Art Quotes

"You make music to move people " "Nothing matters but the writing. There has been nothing else worthwhile... a stain upon the silence" "Poetry is for me Eucharistic worthiness" "The poet is an artist for whom singing is not simply enough only accompanied by tears is his song complete" "Poetry is the watchful eye of the human race" "Music is always a commentary on society" "Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. Music is the best" "The most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying." "Art tells you what's beyond, without explicitly telling you" "Writing is nothing more than a guided dream" "An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose" "The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable." "The only good thing ever to come out of religion was the music" "Perhaps the mission of an artist is to interpret beauty to people the beauty within themselves" "A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom."