QUOTES ON MUSIC & VISUALS
"Music, theoretically considered, consists altogether of lines of tone. It more nearly resembles a picture or an architectural drawing, than any other art creation; the difference being that in a drawing the lines are visible and constant, while in music they are audible and in motion. The separate tones are the points through which the lines are drawn; and the impression which is intended, and which is apprehended by the intelligent listener, is not that of single tones, but of continuous lines of tones, describing movements, curves and angles, rising, falling, poising—directly analogous to the linear impressions conveyed by a picture or drawing.”
[Percy Goetschius, Elementary Counterpoint 1910, 1]
“We use the same principles for understanding a painting, or any visual image, as music:
we look for the motif or theme, or try to build such constructions from fragments of patterns or sounds.”
[Falkenberg Hansen, 2006]
“Music is painted upon a canvas of silence”
"To draw you must close your eyes and sing"
"A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence"
QUOTES ON EDUCATION
"The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows."
[Sydney J. Harris]