Art Quote by John Henry Newman

“By the sweet power of music: therefore the poet did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones and floods; since nought so stockish, hard and…

— William Shakespeare

“How may one describe enchantment? As he sang, his countenance softened, and without benefit of costume or any other artifice of the stage, the…

— Debra Dean

“The diversity of sounds rule my ever presence with their highs and blows, encompassing the totality of sensual experience. I'm a child of the…

— Serj Tankian

“Music fountains from purity, travels through serenity and dissolves with tranquility.”

— Vinod Varghese Antony

“The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils;…

— Shakespeare

“I sing to him that rests below, And, since the grasses round me wave, I take the grasses of the grave, And make them…

— Alfred Tennyson

“The Man who has not Music in his Soul, Or is not touch’d with Concord of sweet Sounds, Is fit for Treason, Stratagems, and…

— Jon Meacham

“What whispers from the center of the soul is an innocence—so loving, so pure, so divine—that the sage bows and the wise man weeps…

— Heather K. O'Hara

“I had fallen into a profound dream-like reverie in which I heard him speaking as at a distance. 'And yet there is no one…

— W.B. Yeats

“I have a new love for that glittering instrument, the human soul. It is a lovely and unique thing in the universe. It is…

— John Steinbeck

“...and the sound of her low voice seemed to have the accompaniment of all the other sounds, full of mystery, desolation, and sorrow, I…

— Joseph Conrad

“The heaven of stars bends over me in silence, a harp through which the wind of time still whispers music some hand has hushed…

— John Hall Wheelock