Handel quotes

Handel is so great and so simple that no one but a professional musician is unable to understand him.

-Butler, Samuel
Collected in H F  Jones (ed)  The Notebooks of Samuel Butler (1912).

Raphael paints wisdom; Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writesit,Wren buildsit,Columbussailsit, Luther preaches it,Washington arms it,Watt mechanizes it.

-Emerson, RalphWaldo
  Society and Solitude,'Art'.

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