"How lucky is the man who, like Mozart and others, goes to the tavern of an evening and writes some fresh music. For he lives while he is creating."

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Source : Clara Schumann, Johannes Brahms (1971). “Letters of Clara Schumann and Johannes Brahms, 1853-1896”

Johannes Brahms

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“I oscillate between agnosticism and atheism.”
“... if a man prays God for some virtue, and at the same time gives himself up to negligence, acquiring no definite means to gain this virtue, and making no effort towards it, truly this man tempts God, rather than prays. Thus the divine James says: 'The effectual prayer of a righteous man avails much' (Jms. 5:16). What avails to make prayer effective? is when, besides begging a saint to pray for him about something, the man also prays about it himself and with all diligence does everything necessary for obtaining his request.”
“There has never been a great film unless it was created in the spirit of the experimental filmmaker.”

Source : Len Lye, Jean-Michel Bouhours, Roger Horrocks, Jonathan Dennis, Centre Georges Pompidou (2000). “Len Lye: la manifestation Len Lye est présentée au Centre Pompidou du 5 au 30 avril 2000; au Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain, Strasbourg du 23 juin au 10 septembre 2000; au Fresnoy, Studio National des Arts Contemporains, Tourcoing du 14 octobre au 17 décembre 2000”, Editions du Centre Pompidou
“Martin Jol has put his hands on his heads.”
“We know the truth of the restored gospel. Are we ready to defend that truth? We need to live it; we need to share it.”
“I've been doing stand-up for so long, I think 19 years, that I love topics I can also expand on. Once I identify a topic like, say, seafood, which is a big one right now, it's like there are different kinds of tangents I can go on to build a larger chunk.”
“Either one or the other [analysis or synthesis] may be direct or indirect. The direct procedure is when the point of departure is known-direct synthesis in the elements of geometry. By combining at random simple truths with each other, more complicated ones are deduced from them. This is the method of discovery, the special method of inventions, contrary to popular opinion.”

Source : "André-Marie Ampère: Enlightenment and Electrodynamics". Book by James R. Hofmann, p. 159, 1996.
“As a writer, it's fun to create. And once you get into a long-running show with very established characters and a very established tone and format, after a while it's a really great job, but that's what it is - a job.”

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