"Life and art are not two different things...." — Felix Mendelssohn
"Life and art are not two different things...."
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Felix Mendelssohn
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12 Quotes by Felix Mendelssohn
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And here we come to the vital distinction between the advocacy of temperance and the advocacy of prohibition. Temperance and…
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People usually complain that music is so ambiguous, and what they are supposed to think when they hear it is…
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Ever since I began to compose, I have remained true to my starting principle: not to write a page because…
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It's not that music is too imprecise for words, but too precise....
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The trombone is too sacred for frequent use.
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This is what I think art is and what I demand of it: that it pull everyone in, that it…
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I know perfectly well that no musician can make his thoughts or his talents different to what Heaven has made…
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And do you agree with me, that the first condition of an artist should be to bear respect toward what…
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Though everything else may appear shallow and repulsive, even the smallest task in music is so absorbing, and carries us…
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These seem to me so ambiguous, so vague, so easily misunderstood in comparison to genuine music, which fills the soul…
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People often complain that music is too ambiguous, that what they should think when they hear it is so unclear,…
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More Art Quotes
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A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the…
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Let each man exercise the art he knows.
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Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them…
— Aristotle
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The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
— Aristotle
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Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,…
— Aristotle
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It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
— Aristotle
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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
— Aristotle
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I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in…
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex,…
— Karen Armstrong
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I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new…
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I don't care who you are, you're going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your…
— Arthur Ashe
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Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
— Isaac Asimov
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