Music is the highest, most powerful, most overriding, of all the arts. In the presence of music, all the other arts take on the character of the music, not vice versa, and is capable of, and can produce in us, the finest, most delicate of possible human reactions. 

Mark Anstendig

Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art.

Maya Angelou

There's no need for a piece of sculpture in a home that has a cat.

Wesley Bates

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Ring out the false, ring in the true.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. 

William Makepeace Thackeray

As dry leaves that before the wild hurricane fly, when they meet with an obstacle, mount to the sky. So up to the house-top the coursers they flew, with the sleigh full of toys, and St. Nicholas too.

Clement Clarke Moore

We are a landscape of all we have seen. 

Isamu Noguchi

This benefit of seeing...can come only if you pause a while, extricate yourself from the maddening mob of quick impressions ceaselessly battering our lives, and look thoughtfully at a quiet image...the viewer must be willing to pause, to look again, to meditate.

Dorothea Lange

The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Christmas Eve was a night of song that wrapped itself about you like a shawl. But it warmed more than your body. It warmed your heart…filled it, too, with melody that would last forever.

Bess Streeter Aldrich

 Song of Years

Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.

Hans Christian Andersen

Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.

Dr. Seuss

I know the world is bruised and bleeding, and though it is important not to ignore its pain, it is also critical to refuse to succumb to its malevolence. Like failure, chaos contains information that can lead to knowledge - even wisdom. Like art.

Toni Morrison

I thought I saw the face of God.

George Frideric Handel

Handel's Messiah in Grace Cathedral

Art is the fatal net which catches these strange moments on the wing like mysterious butterflies, fleeing the innocence and distraction of common men. 

Giorgio de Chirico

One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind.

Dorothea Lange

I live and love in God's peculiar light.

Michelangelo

The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera. 

Dorothea Lange

To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

Henry David Thoreau

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

Maya Angelou

We become what we contemplate.

Plato

Sing hey! Sing hey!
For Christmas Day;
Twine mistletoe and holly.
For a friendship glows
In winter snows,
And so let's all be jolly!

Author Unknown

What I have in my heart and soul - must find a way out. That's the reason for music.

Ludwig von Beethoven

Christmas! ‘Tis the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.

Washington Irving

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.

Henry David Thoreau

A photograph is neither taken nor seized by force. It offers itself up. It is the photo that takes you. One must not take photos. 

Henri Catrier-Bresson

Anything that excites me for any reason, I will photograph; not searching for unusual subject matter, but making the commonplace unusual. 

Edward Weston

'Twas Christmas broach'd the mightiest ale;
'Twas Christmas told the merriest tale;
A Christmas gambol oft could cheer
The poor man's heart through half the year.

Walter Scott

Christmas in Bethlehem. The ancient dream: a cold, clear night made brilliant by a glorious star, the smell of incense, shepherds and wise men falling to their knees in adoration of the sweet baby, the incarnation of perfect love. 

Lucinda Franks

Finding Nirvana is like locating silence.

Jack Kerouac

The vibrations on the air are the breath of God speaking to man's soul. Music is the language of God. We musicians are as close to God as man can be. We hear his voice, we read his lips, we give birth to the children of God, who sing his praise. That's what musicians are.

Ludwig van Beethoven

To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.

Elliot Erwitt

Bring the viewer to your side, include him in your thought. He is not a bystander. You have the power to increase his perceptions and conceptions. 

Dorothea Lange

You ask me where I get my ideas. That I cannot tell you with certainty. They come unsummoned, directly, indirectly - I could seize them with my hands - out in the open air, in the woods, while walking, in the silence of the nights, at dawn, excited by moods which are translated by the poet into words, by me into tones that sound and roar and storm about me till I have set them down in notes.

Ludwig van Beethoven

Look how the smaller birds greet the sun, with so much merry chirruping and so much outpouring of song! It is their way of expressing worship for the only Light they can know, an outer one. But man can also know the inner Sun, the Light of the Overself. How much more reason has he to chirp and sing than the little birds! Yet how few man feel gratitude for such privilege. 

Paul Brunton

Whether I was in my body or out of my body as I wrote it I know not. God knows.

George Frideric Handel

Handel's Messiah in Grace Cathedral

The entire universe is a great theatre of mirrors. 

Alice Bailey

The arts, it has been said, cannot change the world, but they may change human beings who might change the world.

Maxine Greene

Shut your eyes and see.

James Joyce

Everything has two aspects; the current aspect, which we see nearly always and which ordinary men see, and the ghostly and metaphysical aspect, which only rare individuals may see in moments of clairvoyance and metaphysical abstraction. 

Giorgio de Chirico

I take photographs with love, so I try to make them art objects. But I make them for myself first and foremost - that is important.

Jacques Henri-Lartigue

Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.

Emily Dickinson

With photography, you zero in; you put a lot of energy into short moments, and then you go on to the next thing.

Robert Mapplethorpe

This then: to photograph a rock, have it look like a rock, but be more than a rock. 

Edward Weston

The very secret of life for me, I believed, was to maintain in the midst of rushing events an inner tranquility. 

Margaret Bourke-White

Truly there would be reason to go mad were it not for music.

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

I'm so tired of waiting, aren't you, for the world to become good and beautiful and kind?

Langston Hughes

To take photographs is to hold one's breath when all faculties converge in the face of fleeing reality. It is at that moment that mastering an image becomes a physical and intellectual joy. 

Henri Cartier-Bresson

All the darkness in the world can't put out the light of one candle. 

Confucius

Though the eye is small, the soul which sees through it is greater and vaster than all the things which it perceives. In fact, it is so great that it includes all objects, however large or numerous, within itself. For it is not so much that you are within the cosmos as that the cosmos is within you.

Meher Baba

Seeing is more than a physiological phenomenon... We see not only with our eyes but with all that we are and all that our culture is. The artist is a professional see-er.

Dorothea Lange

The prejudice many photographers have against colour photography comes from not thinking of colour as form. You can say things with colour that can't be said in black and white... Those who say that colour will eventually replace black and white are talking nonsense. The two do not compete with each other. They are different means to different ends.

Edward Weston

It's been proven by quite a few studies that plants are good for our psychological development. If you green an area, the rate of crime goes down. Torture victims begin to recover when they spend time outside in a garden with flowers. So we need them, in some deep psychological sense, which I don't suppose anybody really understands yet.

Jane Goodall

Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childish days; that can recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth; that can transport the sailor and the traveller, thousands of miles away, back to his own fire-side and his quiet home!

Charles Dickens

 The Pickwick Papers

"You can't help that. We're all mad here."

The Cheshire Cat from Alice in Wonderland

There is a Christmas song upon the air,
There is a joy innate within the heart;
An inner sense of peace, a holy light
Illumines life and sets these days apart.

Edna Greene Hines

Essentially what photography is is life lit up.

Sam Abell

I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.

Shirley Temple

Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty. 

John Ruskin

From my perspective, I absolutely believe in a greater spiritual power, far greater than I am, from which I have derived strength in moments of sadness or fear. That's what I believe, and it was very, very strong in the forest.

Jane Goodall

If you understand, things are just as they are. If you do not understand, things are just as they are.

Zen Buddhist saying

The mathematical probability of a common cat doing exactly as it pleases is the one scientific absolute in the world.

Lynn M. Osband

Be kind.

Every person you meet 
is fighting a difficult battle.

Plato

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

Arthur Schopenhauer

You know there are moments such as these when time stands still and all you do is hold your breath and hope it will wait for you. 

Dorothea Lange

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. Music is the electrical soil in which the spirit lives, thinks and invents.

Ludwig van Beethoven

I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.

Jean Cocteau

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I did think I did see all heaven before me, and the great God himself.

George Frideric Handel

Handel's Messiah in Grace Cathedral

I like the plot of The Nutcracker - not at all.

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

I don't think that faith, whatever you're being faithful about, really can be scientifically explained. And I don't want to explain this whole life business through truth, science. There's so much mystery. There's so much awe.

Jane Goodall

Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.

Norman Vincent Peale

Let us have music for Christmas … 
Sound the trumpet of joy and rebirth;
Let each of us try, with a song in our hearts,
To bring peace to men on earth.

Mildred L. Jarrell

In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.

John Muir

Life is not significant details, illuminated by a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are.

Susan Sontag

Step with care and great tact, and remember that Life's a Great Balancing Act.

Dr. Seuss