Joseph Addison Quotes

In the art of design, color is to form what verse is to prose,--a more harmonious and luminous vehicle of the thought.

So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning.

Music is a language.

Architecture, like dance, is also a language - one that everybody understands.

When you play music, you don't need a language. Music is a language.

Music, somehow, breaks through, to everybody.

The chief function of color should be to serve expression as well as possible.

There's something in music which is obviously beyond language itself. It's communication in its purest form.

Abstract art was the quivalent of poetic expression; I didn’t need to use words,but colors and lines. I didn’t need to belong to a language-oriented culture but to an open form of expression.

Music is life. Music defines peoples' experience on this planet.

I can't imagine my world without music. It's the universal language; what I make comes from my heart. What I listen to from others stirs it.

Music is all about transporting people, speaking a language which languages fail to express.

Photography is a language more universal than words.

Color! What a deep and mysterious language, the language of dreams.

Eyes...They speak all languages.

I am always in the hope to express the love of two lovers by a marriage of two complementary colors - colors which marry each other... complement each other as a man and a woman do.

I draw because words are too unpredictable. I draw because words are too limited. If you speak and write in English, or Spanish, or Chinese, or any other language, then only a certain percentage of human beings will get your meaning. But when you draw a picture everybody can understand it. If I draw a cartoon of a flower, then every man, woman, and child in the world can look at it and say, "That's a flower.

If there is one thing that is constant in this world, it is the power of music.

Music is the universal language ... it brings people closer together.

Color cannot stand alone.

The being level speaks the language of art, music, color shape and pattern directly -- a language that requires no words -- is not limited by words -- nor does it have the specificity of words and thus cannot be broken onto parts that can be manipulated or analyzed by the intellect. It must be swallowed, whole not parsed, sorted and justified.

The best poetry will be found to have a power of forming, sustaining, and delighting us, as nothing else can.

Music is a language that doesn’t speak in particular words. It speaks in emotions, and if it’s in the bones, it’s in the bones.

I think that music is something that surpasses trends, fashions; music is something much deeper.

Color is like cooking. The cook puts in more or less salt, that's the difference!