* some views expressed in these quotations not neccesarily endorsed by the author of this file.
* for entertainment only - history is not an exact science - dates and quotes not guaranteed for accuracy.
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.
I think everyone should have a Beatles phase in their life. I think it's part of growing up in the Western world.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but hasn't the fine line between sanity and madness gotten finer?
Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.
My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.
So you see, imagination needs moodling - long, inefficient, happy idling, dawdling and puttering.
Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting.
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul.
All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.
Let each man exercise the art he knows.
Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here!
If you were in a burning house and there was a cat and a Rembrandt, what would you save? The cat...you would save the cat, because the cat is alive. The art is dead. It's just paint on a canvas, ink on a page. To live for art is to deny life. It's just to destroy life.
In a burning house you must save a cat and a Rembrandt. Save the Rembrandt first and try to go back for the cat.