Sir Arthur Sullivan famous quotes

03-24-2025

Of all the arts I think Music has the most mighty, universal, and immediate effect.
-- Sir Arthur Sullivan

#Art #Thinking #Universal
One day work is hard, and another day it is easy; but if I had waited for inspiration I am afraid I should have done nothing. The miner does not sit at the top of the shaft waiting for the coal to come bubbling up to the surface. One must go deep down, and work out every vein carefully.
-- Sir Arthur Sullivan

#Inspiration #Should Have #Work Out
For myself, I can only say that I am astonished and somewhat terrified at the results of this evening's experiments. Astonished at the wonderful power you have developed, and terrified at the thought that so much hideous and bad music may be put on record forever.
-- Sir Arthur Sullivan

#Forever #Records #May
The theatre is not the place for the musician. When the curtain is up the music interrupts the actor, and when it is down the music interrupts the audience.
-- Sir Arthur Sullivan

#Theatre #Musician #Actors
I am terrified at the thought that so much hideous and bad music will be put on records forever.
-- Sir Arthur Sullivan

#Forever #Records #Bad Music
Tax reform has been used as a crutch, as a smokescreen and as candy coating for the hard choices that have to be made.
-- Sir Arthur Sullivan

#Choices #Reform #Made

Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.
As a kid, I was always into art at the same time as computers, and eventually I realised I was making more interesting stuff with my keyboard than with my hands. I really enjoyed modifying computer games more than playing them, so that got me into programming.
The traditional difficulty of balancing the mechanical with the imaginative schools of photography still operates. In schools of photography meaningful art education is often lacking and on the strength of their technical ability alone students, deprived of a richer artistic training, are sent forth inculcated with the belief that they are creative photographers and artists. It is yet a fact that today, as in the past, the most inspiring and provocative works in photography come as much (and probably more) from those who are in the first place artists.
Our God has boundless resources. The only limit is in us. Our asking, our thinking, our praying are too small. Our expectations are too limited.
Fear is born of Satan, and if we would only take time to think a moment we would see that everything Satan says is founded upon a falsehood.
I think I feel rather differently about sympathy to what seems the normal view. I like just to feel it is there, but not always expressed.
Indo-European peoples and Semitic peoples are today still completely different... Jews almost everywhere form a special society... Muslims (the Semitic spirit is today represented mainly by Islam) and the Europeans stand face to face like two beings of different species, having nothing common in the way of thinking and feeling...
If the condition of grief is nearly universal, its transactions are exquisitely personal.
Of all the arts I think Music has the most mighty, universal, and immediate effect.
We are the creators, not only of our own destiny, but ultimately we are the creators of universal destiny. We are the creators of the universe.

Sir Arthur Sullivan famous quotes

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