“It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done.” (Vincent van Gogh)

”Believe in your heart that you're meant to live a life full of passion, purpose, magic and miracles.” (Roy T. Bennett)

"Art doesn’t give rise to anything in us that isn’t already there. It simply stirs our curious consciousness and sparks a fire that illuminates who we have always wanted to be." (Kamand Kojouri)

“Those who wish to sing always find a song.” (Swedish proverb)

“The insane human mind is the greatest scientific instrument known to mankind.” (Steven Magee)

“The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.” (Albert Einstein)

“He who works with his hands is a laborer.
He who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman.
He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist.” (Francis of Assisi)

"As poetry is the harmony of words, so music is that of notes; and as poetry is a rise above prose and oratory, so is music the exaltation of poetry." (Henry Purcell)

“Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal.” (Egon Schiele)

“Sei du mir tausendmal willkommen, meine löbliche, liebliche, künstliche, vornehme und angenehme Musika!” (Abraham a Sancta Clara)

"The power of music feels like taking a nice brake from this busy world." (Millie DeWitt)

"Wenn wir Freude am Leben haben, kommen die Glücksmomente von selber." (Ernst Ferstl)

"Where there is darkness let there be light." (Francis of Assisi)

"Where words leave off, music begins." (Heinrich Heine)

"Where words fail, music speaks."
(Hans Christian Andersen)

“Let me, O let me bathe my soul in colours; let me swallow the sunset and drink the rainbow.” (Khalil Gibran)

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"Creativity is paradoxical. To create, a person must have knowledge but forget the knowledge, must see unexpected connections in things but not have a mental disorder, must work hard but spend time doing nothing as information incubates, must create many ideas yet most of them are useless, must look at the same thing as everyone else, yet see something different, must desire success but embrace failure, must be persistent but not stubborn, and must listen to experts but know how to disregard them." (Michael Michalko)

“Im Wesen der Musik liegt es, Freude zu bereiten.” (Aristoteles)

“She is free in her wildness, she is a wanderess, a drop of free water. She knows nothing of borders and cares nothing for rules or customs. 'Time' for her isn’t something to fight against. Her life flows clean, with passion, like fresh water.” (Roman Payne)

“All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart.” (Tahereh Mafi)

“A fine work of art - music, dance, painting, story - has the power to silence the chatter in the mind and lift us to another place.” (Robert McKee)

"I just do what I do. I like to make music."
(Neil Young)

"Time is like the wind, it lifts the light and leaves the heavy." (Doménico Cieri Estrada)