"Art is too important not to share."

“The art of Mime encompasses all the feelings of the soul. The Dance, on the other hand, is essentially an expression of joy, a desire to follow the rhythms of the music.”

Source : August Bournonville (1979). “My theatre life”, Wesleyan

“When the velocity of progress increases beyond a certain point, it becomes indistinguishable from crisis.”

Source : Owen Barfield, Jeanne Clayton Hunter, Thomas Kranidas (1993). “A Barfield Sampler: Poetry and Fiction By Owen Barfield”, p.152, SUNY Press

“Why are murder mysteries so popular? There's a 3-part "formula" (if you want to call it that) for a genre novel: (1) Someone the reader likes and relates to (2) overcomes increasingly difficult obstacles (3) to reach an important goal. The more important the goal, the stronger the novel. And the most important goal that any of us have is survival. That's why murder mysteries are more gripping than a story titled "Who Stole My TV Set.”

“When I was to come to Washington the first time as Music Director of the Boston Symphony, Mrs. Johnson phoned us to find out if they could give us a party and who we would like to meet.”

“In our society it is murder, psychologically, to deprive a man of a job or an income. You are in substance saying to that man that he has no right to exist. You are in a real way depriving him of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, denying in his case the very creed of his society.”

“Lo and behold! God made this starry wold, The maggot and the mold; lo and behold! He taught the grass contentment blade by blade, The sanctity of sameness in a shade.”

Source : "Markham v. Prodigy". TIME magazine, November 23, 1925.

“One day I will go back to my books and piano, but not yet.”

“The biographies and autobiographies are on the whole more impressive than the fiction of the last two decades, but the freakish best sellers among them are least likely to withstand the test of time.”