Art Quote by Arnold Schoenberg

The artist must yield himself to his own inspiration... I should compose with utter confidence a subject that set my musical blood going, even…

— Giuseppe Verdi

As I had collaborated with visual artists before whether on installations, on performance pieces, in the context of theatre works and as I had…

— Gavin Bryars

“Artists are dishonest creatures really. They foist their version of reality upon us while making it all up. Writers, painters, musicians, auteurs—they’re all the…

— Anonymous

“A pianist is a painter of music”

— Goitsemang Mvula

Writers are painful friends, and they are seldom friendly with others. They are insecure in the presence of other writers. Composers of certain kinds…

— Paul Theroux

All great musical composers have been connected, consciously or unconsciously, with this source of music-a fact that enabled them to become masters of their…

— Corinne Heline

Composers are very individual creatures.

— Krzysztof Penderecki

“Could a person choose to be or not to be an artist?”

— Tom Robbins

“It is a mistake to think that the practice of my art has become easy to me. I assure you, dear friend, no one…

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

“... an artist should paint from the heart, and not always what people expect. Predictability often leads to the dullest work, in my opinion,…

— Anonymous

I think the reason composers aren't valued is because many act as servants rather than music directors. Instead of taking a stand based on…

— M. Jayachandran

“Artist paint images unseen, musicians create sounds that emerge from silence, and authors write from a synthetic point of view about a world that…

— Carl Henegan