Art washes from the soul the dust of everyday life.
— Pablo Picasso

To have read the greatest works of any great poet, to have beheld or heard the greatest works of any great painter or musician, is a possession added to the best things in life.
— Algernon Charles Swinburne

The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.
— John Lubbock

A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.
— Chinese Proverb

Music is the shorthand of emotion.
— Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy