Quotes on Art & Music

These quotes originally appeared in a newsletter from Meditiation Mount.

All audible musical sound is given us for the sake of harmony, which has motions akin to the orbits in our soul, and which, as anyone who makes intelligent use of the Arts knows, is not to be used, as is commonly thought, to give irrational pleasure, but as a heaven sent ally in reducing to order and harmony any disharmony in the revolutions within us. Rhythm, again, was given us from the same heavenly source to help us in the same way; for most of us lack measure and grace.
from Timaeus by Plato

From the knowledge of Art arises divine knowledge and such knowledge leads to enlightenment. This liberation is truly the essence of the knowledge of Art. He who realizes this attains freedom.
Vastu Sutru Upanishad

"I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness."
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

“I believe in God, Mozart and Beethoven, and likewise their disciples and apostles; - I believe in the Holy Spirit and the truth of the one, indivisible Art; - I believe that this Art proceeds from God, and lives within the hearts of all illumined men; - I believe that he who once has bathed in the sublime delights of this high Art, is consecrate to Her for ever, and never can deny Her; - I believe that through Art all men are saved.”
Richard Wagner

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
André Gide

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.
Leonardo da Vinci

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