“Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets, for it and knowledge can raise men to the divine.”
More from Beethoven on Art
“Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.”
“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”
“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“I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.”
Vincent van Gogh
13 quotes“Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.”
Michelangelo
12 quotes“Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.”
Susan Sontag
10 quotes“The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality and eventually in one's own.”
John Keats
10 quotes“Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.”
Percy Shelley
8 quotes“Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.”
Wallace Stevens
8 quotes“Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other peop...”
Charles Baudelaire
8 quotes“Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.”
John Ruskin
7 quotes“We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful...”
Steven Pressfield
7 quotes“The most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying.”
Frank Lloyd Wright
7 quotes“Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.”
Marshall McLuhan
7 quotes“Art is anything you can get away with.”