“Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.”
More from Beethoven on Art
“Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.”
“Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.”
“Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.”
“Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.”
“Music is ... A higher revelation than all Wisdom & Philosophy”
“Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets, for it and knowledge can raise men to the divine.”
“Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.”
Others on Art
Picasso
18 quotes“The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.”
Vincent van Gogh
13 quotes“Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.”
Michelangelo
12 quotes“Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.”
John Keats
10 quotes“With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.”
Susan Sontag
10 quotes“Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.”
Percy Shelley
8 quotes“Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted”
Wallace Stevens
8 quotes“The only emperor is the emperor of ice cream.”
Charles Baudelaire
8 quotes“The mixture of the grotesque and the tragic is agreeable to the spirit, as are discords to the jaded ear.”
Jackson Pollock
7 quotes“The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating.”
W.H. Auden
7 quotes“Without art, we should have no notion of the sacred; without science, we should always worship false gods.”
Frank Lloyd Wright
7 quotes“Pictures deface walls oftener than they decorate them.”
Steven Pressfield
7 quotes“...she (the artist, the writer) doesn't wait for inspiration, she acts in the anticipation of its apparition.”