Section: «Quotes»
A quotation (from Latin citare, citatum - to proclaim, to cite) is a verbatim excerpt from some text of someone's speech; the author's words, cited to support it with authority or simply to illustrate one's own expressed thought, or to criticize the quoted thought itself.
“The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.” — Pablo Picasso
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“Museums are not made for tourists but for citizens.” — Alfredo Jaar
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“A museum is a place where one should lose one’s head.” — Renzo Piano
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“Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.” — Confucius
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“Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.” — Berthold Auerbach
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“Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.” — Pablo Casals
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“Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.” — Ludwig van Beethoven
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“After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.” — Aldous Huxley
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“Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything.” — Plato
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“Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.” — Tom Lehrer
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“Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.” — Alphonse de Lamartine
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“One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.” — Bob Marley
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“Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.” — Victor Hugo
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