Drama is like a dream, it is not real, but it is really felt.

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

Good art is not what it looks like, but what it does to us.

Where words fail, music speaks.

Music was my refuge, I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.

Countless unseen details are often the only difference between mediocre and magnificent.

Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did, backwards and on high heels.

Most of us go to our grave with our music still inside of us.

In the end, art outlives politics.

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother’s womb.

I just dance. I just put my feet in the air and move them around.

Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself.

A dance is a measured pace, as a verse is a measured speech.

First comes the sweat. Then comes the beauty if you're very lucky and have said your prayers.

A nation creates music - the composer only arranges it.

Dancing can reveal all the mystery that music conceals.

Patience is an integral part of talent.

Dance first. Think later. It's the natural order.

Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess.

If you really beleive music is dangerous, you should let it go in one ear and out the other.

When I dance, I cannot judge, I cannot hate, I cannot separate myself from life.

Architecture is inhabited sculpture.

A child sings before it speaks, dances almost before it walks, music is with us from the beginning.

Dance every performance as if it were your last.

On with the dance! Let joy be unconfined.

Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations.

Music to me is like breathing - I don't get tired of breathing, I don't get tired of music.

Nothing is more beautiful than a guitar, except, possibly, two.

We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.

How inimitably graceful children are in general - before they learn to dance.

Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

The artist is not a special kind of man, but every man is a special kind of artist.

The only way to do it is to do it.

The color of the object illuminated partakes of the color of that which illuminates it. ::: ::: The color of the object illuminated partakes of the color of that which illuminates it. ::: :::

The desire to survive and the fear of death are artistic sentiments.

When I paint, the sea roars. The others splash about in the bath.

You have to systematically create confusion, it sets creativity free.

To give body and perfect form to your thought, this alone is what it is to be an artist.

The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.

Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.

This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

The high note is not the only thing.

Great ideas originate in the muscles.

If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious, the source of all art and science.

Music is my mistress, and she plays second fiddle to know one.

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.

Move your neck according to the music.

I do not want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.

To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.

If you are looking for something to be brave about consider fine arts.

I shut my eyes in order to see.

The flat sound of my wooden clogs on the cobblestones, deep, hollow and powerful, is the note I seek in my painting.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

The essence of drawing is the line exploring space.

Great dancers are not great because of their technique; they are great becuse of their passion.

Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance.

Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same.

You are lost the instant you know what the result will be.

Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought.

Red is one of the strongest colors, it's blood, it has a power with the eye.

Only the poet can look beyond the detail and see the whole picture.

To do what others cannot do is talent. To do what talent cannot do is genius.

People who make music together cannot be enemies, at least while the music lasts.

Style is something you can use, and you can be like a magpie, just taking what you want.

A work of art is a world in itself, reflecting senses and emotions of the artist’s world.

Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.

Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist.

Art is....a question mark in the minds of those who want to know what's happening.

A fair price is the highest one a collector can be induced to pay.

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent.

A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.

All art intuitively apprehends coming changes in the collective unconsciousness.

There is no must in art because art is free.

We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible.

Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.

Art is the objectification of feeling, and the subjectification of nature.

Adventure can be an end in itself. Self-discovery is the secret ingredient that fuels daring.

Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.

Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist.

Creativity takes courage.

The portrait is one of the most curious art forms. It demands special qualities in the artist, almost total kinship with the model.

Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul.

If you are irritated by every rub, how will you be polished?

A great sculpture can roll down a hill without breaking.

I already have a wife who is too much for me.. she is my art, and my works are my children. ::: :::

All anybody needs to know about prizes is that Mozart never won one.

My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece.

O great creator of being, grant us one more hour to perform our art and perfect our lives

Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.

Art is everywhere, except it has to pass through a creative mind.

An artist chooses his subjects.. that is the way he praises.

When the music and dance create with accord their magic captivates both the heart and the mind.

Art is a technique of communication.The image is the most complete technique of all communication.

Imagination is the true magic carpet.

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Why do you try to understand art? Do you try to understand the song of a bird?

For a long time I limited myself to one color.. as a form of discipline.

To sing well and to dance well is to be well-educated.

The painting has a life of its own.

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

The artist's job is to be a witness to his time in history.

Anyone who says you can't see a thought simply doesn't know art.

Collecting art is like a drug. It is both intensely pleasurable and highly addictive.

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it, we go nowhere.

Simplicity is the essence of the great, the true, and the beautiful in art.

Music contains a whole gamut of experience, from sensuous elements to ultimate intellectual harmonies.

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.

Music goes deeper than emotion into the energies that animate our psychic life.

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.

Dancing is silent poetry.

Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.

A painter paints pictures on canvas, but musicians paint their pictures on silence.

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.

The road to success is always under construction.

All art requires courage.

What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit.

The only time I feel alive is when I’m painting.

All creations demand greenery of spirit.

Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.

An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.

The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life.

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did he would cease to be an artist.

You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.

Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.