Quotes
The real business of culture lies in opening up the richness of the world in which we live, intensifying our normal everyday life in one place, and to offer it real substance.
David Malouf, author
Only real passion can lead to a successful seduction. The canvas too requires conquering. I need to work myself up into a state of huge excitement before I can commence painting.
Françoise Gilot, painter
We need music. The world without sound is a spook.
Ingeborg Bachmann, authoress
Of all the arts, it is music which has the deepest-reaching influence on the disposition. That is why the law-makers should support it the most.
Napoleon I
Identify your passion, make it your profession, and you'll never do another day's work in your life!
Rolf Harris, Entertainer
Without art the crudeness of reality would make life unbearable.
George Bernard Shaw
If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience.
John Cage