Plato Quotes

My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful; but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful.

Music is the noise that surrounds the stillness of the art form.

Harmonious words render ordinary ideas acceptable; less ordinary, pleasant; novel and ingenious ones, delightful. As pictures and statues, and living beauty, too, show better by music-light, so is poetry irradiated, vivified, glorified', and raised into immortal life by harmony.

Music is meant to be a beautiful thing.

I frequently hear music in the very heart of noise.

I like the ideology of there being no such thing as perfection. But I'm of the opinion that I have witnessed perfection at various times, especially in art.

Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?

Any great warrior is also a scholar, and a poet, and an artist.

It's really only all about music. It's not like a big rocket scientist kind of philosophy or anything.

There's nothing prettier in the world than a melody. I can get lost in a song with a melody. A lot of times I have, and the song wasn't that good, but I would get lost in that melody, and I'd want to do the song.

There's design, and there's art. Good design is total harmony. There's no better designer than nature - if you look at a branch or a leaf, it's perfect. It's all function. Art is different. It's about emotion. It's about suffering and beauty - but mostly suffering!

People tend not to use this word beauty because it's not intellectual - but there has to be an overlap between beauty and intellect.

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.

What love is to man, music is to the arts and to mankind. Music is love itself - it is the purest, most ethereal language of passion, showing in a thousand ways all possible changes of color and feeling; and though true in only a single instance, it yet can be understood by thousands of men - who all feel differently.

What love is to man, music is to the arts and to mankind.

My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful, but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful.

I can't imagine a world without music.

Find a beautiful piece of art. If you fall in love with Van Gogh or Matisse or John Oliver Killens, or if you fall love with the music of Coltrane, the music of Aretha Franklin, or the music of Chopin - find some beautiful art and admire it, and realize that that was created by human beings just like you, no more human, no less.

Rhythm is God. I think, without rhythm, you can't create - there is no art.

I've always loved color because it's a little bit like music. I love that it seems to be both physical and ephemeral and engages us as a metaphor for our feeling lives.

I love art in general - architecture, anything creative.

Music is a gift to all of us.

Art is great. At its best, it engages the intellect and challenges the spirit; it connects us across history and reminds us of our humanity.

Music is magic.