Bruno Walter famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

By concentrating on precision, one arrives at technique, but by concentrating on technique one does not arrive at precision.
-- Bruno Walter

#Technique #Doe #Precision
Music springs from and is replenished by a hidden source which lies outside the world or reality. Music ever spoke to me of a mysterious world beyond, which moved my heart deeply and eloquently intimated its transcendental nature.
-- Bruno Walter

#Spring #Lying #Heart
It is glorious to become a learner again at my time of life.
-- Bruno Walter

#Glorious #Learners
Napoleon is dead - but Beethoven lives.
-- Bruno Walter
There is no task of greater importance than to give our children the very best preparation for the demands of an ominous future, a preparation which aims at the methodical cultivation of their spiritual and their moral gifts. As long as the exemplary work of the Waldorf School Movement continues to spread its influence as it has done over the past decades, we can all look forward with hope. I am sure that Rudolf Steinerâ€™s work for children must be considered a central contribution to the twentieth century and I feel it deserves the support of all freedom-loving thinking people.
-- Bruno Walter

#Spiritual #Children #School
The works of the creative spirit last, they are essentially imperishable, while the world-stirring historical activities of even the most eminent men are circumscribed by time.
-- Bruno Walter

#Men #Creative #Historical
Our music, whose eternal being is forever bound up in its temporal sounds, is not merely an art, enriching beyond measure our cultural life, but also a message from higher worlds, raising and urging us on by it's reminders of our own eternal origins.
-- Bruno Walter

#Art #Forever #Sound
The domain of rhythm extends from the spiritual to the carnal.
-- Bruno Walter

#Spiritual #Domain #Rhythm
I have increasingly become conversant with Pythagoras' and Goethe's idea of a primordial music, not perceptible to the sensuous ear, but sounding and soaring throughout the cosmos. Tracing it to such exalted origins, I begin to understand more deeply the essence of our art and its elemental power over the human soul. Man, being a creature of Nature and subject to the cosmic influences that inform all earthly beings, must needs have been under the sway of that music from his earliest days; his organism reverberated with its vibrations and received it's rhythmic impulses.
-- Bruno Walter

#Art #Men #Ideas

Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
If you obey the technique to perfection, that technique will become invisible.
And no wonder; for the new technique of "subliminal projection," as it was called, was intimately associated with mass entertainment, and in the life of civilized human beings massed entertainment now plays a part comparable to that played in the Middle Ages be religion.
Pain hardens, and great pain hardens greatly, whatever the comforters say, and suffering does not ennoble, though it may occasionally lend a certain rigid dignity of manner to the suffering frame.
If some hole does not possess striking individuality through some gift of nature, it must be given as much as possible artificially, and the artifice must be introduced in so subtle a manner as to make it seem natural.
Oh, wonderful. I killed his father. He hates me. He knows how to make bombs. Come on, Wedge, how does this story end?
The American people have no control over what the military does. We have no say in American foreign policy.
Extension brings space, space brings freedom, freedom brings precision. Precision is truth.
To the person that deals in visualizations, I suppose there is something rather exciting about a whole set of people - they all going symmetrically, up or down, in a military sort of precision.
Photography is the recording of strangeness and beauty with beguiling precision.

Bruno Walter famous quotes

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