"Art means to dare - and to have been right."

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Source : W Magazine, October 10, 1980.

Ned Rorem

#Art Quotes #Mean Quotes #Dare Quotes

“I don't eat much meat, fish, or poultry.”
“No art or learning is to be pursued halfheartedly...and any art worth learning will certainly reward more or less generously the effort made to study it.”

Source : "The Tale of Genji". Book by Murasaki Shikibu, Ch. 17: Eawase (trans. Royall Tyler), 2002.
“Rhythmic motion has become the carrier and creator of almost every ecstatic mood of any significance in human life.”
“What happened? How did I get here? How could I have known that my choices mattered?”
“In the midst of the flurry - clarity. In the midst of the storm - calm. In the midst of divided interests - certainty. In the many roads - a certain choice.”
“I am not afraid of crashing, my secret is . . . just before we hit the ground, I jump as high as I can.”
“Cross out as many adjectives and adverbs as you can. ... It is comprehensible when I write: "The man sat on the grass," because it is clear and does not detain one's attention. On the other hand, it is difficult to figure out and hard on the brain if I write: "The tall, narrow-chested man of medium height and with a red beard sat down on the green grass that had already been trampled down by the pedestrians, sat down silently, looking around timidly and fearfully." The brain can't grasp all that at once, and art must be grasped at once, instantaneously.”
“If you'll spend time praying for people instead of talking about them, you'll get better results.”

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