So every creative act strives to attain an absolute status it longs to create a world of beauty to triumph over chaos and convert it to order. – Rowan D. Williams

The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even ones own even more, ones own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being. – Katherine Anne Porter

Remember always that the composers pen is still mightier than the bow of the violinist in you lie all the possibilities of the creation of beauty. – John Philip Sousa