“I have found among my papers a sheet . . . in which I call architecture frozen music.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Writing about music is like dancing about architecture - it's a really stupid thing to want to do”
Elvis Costello
“Art is a jealous mistress, and if a man has a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Art is a jealous mistress, and, if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture, or philosophy, he makes a bad husband, and an ill provider, and should be wise in season, and not fetter himself with duties which will embitter his day”
“Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.”
Laurie Anderson
“Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself”
Samuel Butler
“Architecture is music in space, as it were a frozen music”
Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling
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