Art Quote by Joseph Addison

Echo waits with art and care And will the faults of song repair.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Strike the concertina's melancholy string! Blow the spirit-stirring harp like any thing! Let the piano's martial blast Rouse the Echoes of the Past

— W. S. Gilbert

To be strong, and beautiful, and go round making music all the time. Yes, she could do that, and with a very earnest prayer…

— Louisa May Alcott

“Ree needed often to inject herself with pleasant sounds, stab those sounds past the constant screeching, squalling hubbub regular life raised inside her spirit,…

— Daniel Woodrell

When griping grief the heart doth wound, and doleful dumps the mind opresses, then music, with her silver sound, with speedy help doth lend…

— William Shakespeare

She dotes on poetry, sir. She adores it; I may say that her whole soul and mind are wound up, and entwined with it.…

— Charles Dickens

[My muse] she's impatient with me, because I don't do what I should do: sit down and write.

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

The soul of music slumbers in the shell Till waked and kindled by the master's spell; And feeling hearts, touch them but rightly, pour…

— Samuel Rogers

“Behold her, single in the field, Yon solitary Highland Lass! Reaping and singing by herself; Stop here, or gently pass! Alone she cuts and…

— William Wordsworth

“If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die. That…

— William Shakespeare

“Her graphite pencil scratches the thick paper and it is the soundtrack to my bliss. That, and her sound - dissonant, aching. Her breath…

— Michelle Hodkin

She marking them begins a wailing note And sings extemporally a woeful ditty How love makes young men thrall and old men dote How…

— William Shakespeare