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The Melody of Art

Where is the Music in Art?

THE HUMAN SOUND OF THE VIOLIN

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“The true mission of the violin is to imitate the accents of the human voice, a noble mission that has earned for the violin the glory of being called the king of instruments”
― Charles-Auguste de Beriot

Edmund Charles Tarbell, “Girl with Violin (the Violinist),” 1890

GLENN GOULD ~ ON BEING AN ARTIST

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“If an artist wants to use his mind for creative work, cutting oneself off from society is a necessary thing”
― Glenn Gould

IF MUSIC BE THE FOOD OF LOVE…

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William A. Breakspeare (c 1855-1914)

If Music be the Food of Love

If music be the food of love, play on,
Give me excess of it; that surfeiting,
The appetite may sicken, and so die.”

William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

IGOR STRAVINSKY ~ GREAT ARTISTS

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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.

Igor Stravinsky

IRENE NEMIROVSKY ~ ON MUSIC

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“…for music alone can abolish differences
of language or culture between two people and invoke something indestructible within them.”

Irene Nemirovsky ― Suite Francaise 

ANAIS NIN ~ ON MUSIC

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“Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.”

~Anais Nin

Photos by Peter and Alice Gowland

VICTOR HUGO ~ THE IMPORTANCE OF MUSIC

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“Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent. “

~Victor Hugo

BACH ~ ON MUSIC

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“It’s easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and the instrument will play itself.”

Johann Sebastian Bach

German composer and musician (1685-1750)


TOLSTOY ~ ON MUSIC

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“Music is the shorthand of emotion.”

Leo Tolstoy

JEAN COCTEAU ~ ON THE MYSTERIOUS RESEMBLANCE OF MUSIC

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“All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.”

Jean Cocteau

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