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

Veronica Tennant

I sing my sorrow and I paint my joy.

Joni Mitchell

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

Gloria Steinem

I see music as fluid architecture.

Joni Mitchell

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

Bertolt Brecht

Every work of art which really moves us is in some degree a revelation.

Lawren Harris

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

Well-written words are music.

William Shatner

Life is short, art is long...

Hippocrates

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

Maureen Forrester

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

Edgar Degas

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

Aldous Huxley

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

Tony Bennett

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

Gord Downie

I know how demanding the process of creation is.

Karen Kain

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

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

Pablo Picasso

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