~ Applause Quotes ~

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]When I hear music I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times and to the latest.

Henry David Thoreau

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]The best most beautiful and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each other is by music.

Jonathan Edwards

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Artists are nearest God. Into their souls he breathes his life and from their hands it comes in fair articulate forms to bless the world.

Josiah Gilbert Holland

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul.

Plato

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Art is a staple like bread or wine or a warm coat in winter. Man's spirit grows hungry for art in the same way his stomach growls for food.

Irving Stone

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Learning to draw is really a matter of learning to see - to see correctly - and that means a good deal more than merely looking with the eye.

Kimon Nicolaides

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Poetry is something to make us wiser and better by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth which God has set in all men's souls.

James Russell Lowell

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]All that is good in art is the expression of one soul talking to another; and is precious according to the greatness of the soul that utters it.

John Ruskin

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Dancing is the loftiest the most moving the most beautiful of the arts because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself.

Havelock Ellis

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Music is the art of the prophets the only art that can calm the agitations of the soul; it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us.

Martin Luther

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence transform a yellow spot into the sun.

Pablo Picasso

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Down deep we really know our worth but we don't have easy access to that knowledge. We need to hear praise coming from outside ourselves or we won't remember that we deserve it.

Barbara Sher

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making his life meaningful. And in the end the poem is not a thing we see - it is rather a light by which we may see - and what we see is life.

Robert Penn Warren

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]He who praises another enriches himself far more than he does the one praised. To praise is an investment in happiness. The poorest human being has something to give that the richest could not buy.

George Matthew Adams

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Poetry ennobles the heart and the eyes and unveils the meaning of all things upon which the heart and the eyes dwell. It discovers the secret rays of the universe and restores to us forgotten paradises.

Edith Sitwell