When Love speaks, the voice of all the gods
Makes heaven drowsy with the harmony.
— Shakespeare

A painter can say all he wants to with fruit or flowers or even clouds. — Manet

Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. — Berthold Auerbach

Love of beauty is taste ... and the creation of beauty is art. — Emerson

Beauty will save the world. — Dostoyevsky

I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours… If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. — Henry David Thoreau

Music should bring tears to the eyes of Woman and strike fire in the heart of Man. — Ludwig van Beethoven

Our life is no dream; but it ought to become one, and perhaps will. — Novalis

Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old. — Franz Kafka