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Music is something everyone on Earth can share. Music is meant to heal us, to bring us together, to make us happy.
Ariana Grandeborn 1993Twitter statement on the Manchester terrorist attack (26 May 2017)
- Music
To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession.
Robert Graves1895–1985Reply to questionnaire, “The Cost of Letters” in Horizon (September 1946)
- Poetry
A perfect poem is impossible. Once it had been written, the world would end.
Robert Graves1895–1985The Paris Review, “Writers at Work: 4th series,” interview with Peter Buckman and William Fifield (1969)
- Poetry
There are two kinds of people in this world: Michael Jackson fans and losers.
Seth Greenborn 1974
- Music
Great artists are products of their own time: they do not spring forth fully equipped from the head of Jove, but are formed by the circumstances acting upon them since birth.
Germaine Greerborn 1939The Obstacle Race (1979), Chapter VII: The Disappearing Oeuvre, p. 134
There is only one Art, whose sole criterion is the power, the authenticity, the revelatory insight, the courage and suggestiveness with which it seeks its truth.
Václav Havel1936–2011Living in Truth (1986), “Six Asides About Culture”
Moonlight is sculpture; sunlight is painting.
Nathaniel Hawthorne1804–1864The American Notebooks (1835—1853), 1838
- Nature
Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed.
Nathaniel Hawthorne1804–1864The Marble Faun (1860), Chapter XLI: Snowdrops and Maidenly Delights
- Poetry
Those who aim at faultless regularity will only produce mediocrity, and no one ever approaches perfection except by stealth, and unknown to themselves.
William Hazlitt1778–1830“Thoughts on Taste”, Edinburgh Magazine (July 1819), final paragraph
All that is worth remembering in life, is the poetry of it.
William Hazlitt1778–1830Lectures on the English Poets (1818), Lecture I, “On Poetry in General”
- Life & Death
- Poetry
That terrible mood of depression of whether it’s any good or not is what is known as The Artist’s Reward.
Ernest Hemingway1899–1961Letter to F. Scott Fitzgerald (13 September 1929); published in Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters 1917–1961 (1981) edited by Carlos Baker
Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter’s honor.
Ernest Hemingway1899–1961Death in the Afternoon (1932), Ch. 9
- Honor
We want our sound to go into the soul of the audience, and see if it can awaken some little thing in their minds… ‘Cause there are so many sleeping people.
Jimi Hendrix1942–1970Dick Cavett interview (1969)
- Music
I always love it when people write me and say “I was having a rotten time, and I walked into a cinema and saw one of your movies, and it made such a difference.”
Audrey Hepburn1929–1993How to be Lovely‎ (2005)
- Movies
I am proud to have been in a business that gives pleasure, creates beauty, and awakens our conscience, arouses compassion, and perhaps most importantly, gives millions a respite from our so violent world.
Audrey Hepburn1929–1993Statement accepting the Screen Actors Guild Achievement Award, read by Julia Roberts, because of Hepburn’s failing health. (January 1993)
- Entertainment
- Movies