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

Aldous Huxley

Our brains are organized by stories and images, not statistics.

Gloria Steinem

I sing my sorrow and I paint my joy.

Joni Mitchell

Writing is an act of faith. I believe it's also an act of hope, the hope that things can get better than they are.

Margaret Atwood

I’ve found that a song can be more effective than a 400-page textbook

Buffy Sainte-Marie

Well-written words are music.

William Shatner

Art is not a mirror held up to reality, but a hammer with which to shape it.

Bertolt Brecht

The real function of artists is to give fresh vision to their own generation.

Doris McCarthy

I've always hid behind the music despite the fact that I have a huge personality. I'm thrilled that the music is bigger than me and will outlive and outlast me. It frees me up to take risks.

Measha Brueggergosman

Dancing is the way I can express the things that cannot be said.

Veronica Tennant

Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.

Edgar Degas

Making a living in the arts, though, creates so many jobs for other people.

Maureen Forrester

Music brings people together. So my function in anything I do is to help bring people closer in."

Gord Downie

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

Pablo Picasso

I feel strongly that the visual arts are of vast and incalculable importance. Of course I could be prejudiced. I am a visual art.

Kermit the Frog

Life is short, art is long...

Hippocrates

I know how demanding the process of creation is.

Karen Kain

I see music as fluid architecture.

Joni Mitchell

If you are creative, you get busier as you get older.

Tony Bennett