“Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity.” 

— William Wordsworth

"Fine art is knowledge made visible."

— Gustave Courbet

"Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secrets of life bringing peace,  abolishing strife."

— Kahlil Gibran

“Life is a theatre set in which there are but few practicable entrances.” 
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables