"The principal rule of art is to please and to move. All the other rules were created to achieve this first one."

Art, First, Rules

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"The principal rule of art is to please and to move. All the other rules were created to achieve this first one."

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"For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art."

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American Poet

Art, Work, Heart, Grace

"Music awaken our soul."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Art, Music, Awaken, Soul, Spirit

"One writes music because winter is eternal and because, if one didn't, the wolves and blizzards will be at one's throat all the sooner."

David Mitchell, British Novelist

Art, Music, Winter, Nature

"Not everyone who loves music can play the tune."

Nora Roberts, American Author

Art, Music, Talent, Skill, Perception

"It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists."

John Ruskin, English Writer

Art, Power, Nothing, Perfection

"The movies remind me of the Triangle Club at Princeton. I used to belong to it, and we always started out firm in our decision to create new and startling things. We always ended up by producing the same old show. In the beginning, our enthusiasm and ideals discarded as rubbish all the old fossilized plots."

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

Art, Movies, Enthusiasm, Ideal, Creativity

"A stone is ingrained with geological and historical memories."

Andy Goldsworthy, British Artist

Art, Memories

"Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art."

Charlie Parker, American Musician

Art, Music, Experience, Wisdom

"Art is something that opens up and enhances your emotions and that's what I like to think I'm doing."

Nile Rodgers, American Musician

Art, Emotions

"The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity."

Walt Whitman, American Poet

Art, Expression, Glory, Letters

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"The principal rule of art is to please and to move. All the other rules were created to achieve this first one."

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"A noble heart cannot suspect in others the pettiness and malice that it has never felt."

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"On the throne, one has many worries; and remorse is the one that weighs the least."

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"Love is not a fire to be shut up in a soul. Everything betrays us: voice, silence, eyes; half-covered fires burn all the brighter."

Love, Soul, Eyes, Fire

"The glory of my name increases my shame. Less known by mortals, I could better escape their eyes."

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"For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art."

"Music awaken our soul."

"One writes music because winter is eternal and because, if one didn't, the wolves and blizzards will be at one's throat all the sooner."

"Not everyone who loves music can play the tune."

"It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists."

"A stone is ingrained with geological and historical memories."

"Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art."

"Art is something that opens up and enhances your emotions and that's what I like to think I'm doing."

"The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity."

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"The principal rule of art is to please and to move. All the other rules were created to achieve this first one."

"A noble heart cannot suspect in others the pettiness and malice that it has never felt."

"Too much virtue can be criminal."

"There are no secrets that time does not reveal."

"Without money honor is merely a disease."

"Justice in the extreme is often unjust."

"According as the man is, so must you humour him."

"On the throne, one has many worries; and remorse is the one that weighs the least."

"Love is not a fire to be shut up in a soul. Everything betrays us: voice, silence, eyes; half-covered fires burn all the brighter."

"The glory of my name increases my shame. Less known by mortals, I could better escape their eyes."