Why spend time and money on the arts?

Upcoming Event:

Two-Piano Benefit Concert
on
Sunday, March 30, 2008 at 3 PM
in Mendocino

Why Music?

Why Art?

Some of our favorite quotes about music:

"Preposterous ass, that never read so far
To know the cause why music was ordained.
Was it not to refresh the mind of man,
After his studies or his usual pain?"
~William Shakespeare

"Music is said to be the speech of angels."
~Thomas Carlyle

"A long time ago I decided that my universe will be the soul and heart of man."
~Frederic Chopin

"Nothing is better than music; when it takes us out of time, it has done more for us than we have the right to hope for."
~Nadia Boulanger

"Music ... can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable."
~Leonard Bernstein

"[Music] can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell."
~W.H. Auden

"In sweet music is such art,
Killing care and grief of heart."
~William Shakespeare

Some of our favorite quotes about art:

"An artist lies in order to reach another kind of truth"
~Pablo Picasso

"Art is coming face to face with yourself."
~Jackson Pollock

"I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music."
~Joan Miro

"As music is the poetry of sound, so is painting the poetry of sight and the subject-matter has nothing to do with harmony of sound or of color."
~James Mcneill Whistler

"No matter how sophisticated you may be, a huge granite mountain cannot be denied – it speaks in silence to the very core of your being."
~Ansel Adams

"Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which Nature herself is animated."
~Auguste Rodin

"Vita brevis, ars longa."
~Hippocrates

Do you have any favorite quotes about music and the arts that you'd like us to add to our quotes page? If so, send us an e-mail.