Expression Quote by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Music is the highest art and to those who understand, is the highest worship

— Swami Vivekananda

“Music requires a particular type of education which is simply not given to most people. And, as a result, it’s set further apart. It…

— Edward W. Said

What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.

— Salman Rushdie

Sometimes art seems to be something very sublime, and, as you say, something sacred.

— Vincent Van Gogh

Painting is always strongest when in spite of composition, color, etc., it appears as a fact, or an inevitability, as opposed to a souvenir…

— Robert Rauschenberg

Music and religion are as intimately related as poetry and love; the deepest emotions require for their civilized expression the most emotional of arts.

— Will Durant

“Art, and above all, music has a fundamental function, which is to catalyze the sublimation that it can bring about through all means of…

— Iannis Xenakis

“If we are in a general way permitted to regard human activity in the realm of the beautiful as a liberation of the soul,…

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Music is an emotional experience, and that is what imprints itself on the soul. And I think for me, any great art is art…

— Greg Lake

Painting is the most beautiful of all arts. In it, all sensations are condensed; contemplating it, everyone can create a story at the will…

— Paul Gauguin

Art, if it can be ascribed value, is most valuable when its beauty (and the beauty of the truth it tells) bewilders, confounds, defies…

— Andrew Peterson

Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.

— Martin Luther