Frank Zappa Quotes

A music serves truth up to you in a really interesting way that allows you to luxuriate in its beauty and, at the same time, to hopefully see yourself in its fragility.

The affairs of music ought, somehow, to terminate in the love of the beautiful.

Were one merely to seek information, one should inquire of the man who hates, but if one wishes to know what truly is, one better ask the one who loves.

What can a pencil do for all of us? Amazing things. It can write transcendent poetry, uplifting music, or life-changing equations; it can sketch the future, give life to untold beauty, and communicate the full-force of our love and aspirations.

Poets are all who love, who feel great truths, And tell them; and the truth of truths is love.

Poetry and art nourish the soul of the world with the flavor-filled substances of beauty, wisdom and truth.

Music is the highest art and to those who understand, is the highest worship

The world still wants its poet-priest, a reconciler, who shall not trifle with Shakspeare the player, nor shall grope in graves with Swedenborg the mourner; but who shall see, speak, and act, with equal inspiration. For knowledge will brighten the sunshine; right is more beautiful than private affection; and love is compatible with universal wisdom.

If all of the steps of surrender are present, then a great Rembrandt or Monet will evoke love because the artist is simply there in all his naked humanity.

It does no harm to the romance of the sunset to know a little bit about it.

You need the art in order to love the life.

There is only beauty / and it has only one perfect expression / poetry. All the rest is a lie /except for those who live by the body, love, and, that love of the mind, friendship. For me, Poetry takes the place of love, because it is enamored of itself, and because its sensual delight falls back deliciously in my soul.

Music and love are the only accomplishments of humanity which do not, in an absolute sense, have to be called attempts with unsuitable means.

Let us then blend everything: love, religion, genius, with sunshine, perfume, music, and poetry.

Love and art do not embrace what is beautiful but what is made beautiful by this embrace.

You will never love art well until you love what she mirrors better.

Love is the reality, and poetry is the drum.

The aesthetic event is something as evident, as immediate, as indefinable as love, the taste of fruit, of water. We feel poetry as we feel the closeness of a woman, or as we feel a mountain or a bay. If we feel it immediately, why dilute it with other words, which no doubt will be weaker than our feelings?

The Winter Photograph was my Ariadne, not because it would help me discover a secret thing (monster or treasure), but because it would tell me what constituted that thread which drew me toward Photography. I had understood that henceforth I must interrogate the evidence of Photography, not from the viewpoint of pleasure, but in relation to what we romantically call love and death.

Song is not Truth, not Wisdom, but the rose Upon Truths lips, the light in Wisdom's eyes.

The most beautiful thing about music is that it transcends most anything.

To paint is to love again, and to love is to live life to the fullest.

Certain things, if not seen as lovely or detestable, are not being correctly seen at all.

Wikipedia works because those who know the truth are usually more numerous and committed than those who believe in a falsehood.