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"The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means."
"Create with the heart, build with the mind."
"And since geometry is the right foundation of all painting, I have decided to teach its rudiments and principles to all youngsters eager for art."
"Music communicates with the soul."
"Romantic art deals with the exception and with the individual. Good people, belonging as they do to the normal, and so, commonplace type, are artistically uninteresting."
Explore more quotes by Charles Ives
"One thing I am certain of is that, if I have done anything good in music, it was, first, because of my father, and second, because of my wife."
"Expression, to a great extent, is a matter of terms, and terms are anyone's. The meaning of 'God' may have a billion interpretations if there be that many souls in the world."
"It is conceivable that what is unified form to the author or composer may of necessity be formless to his audience."
"A rare experience of a moment at daybreak, when something in nature seems to reveal all consciousness, cannot be explained at noon. Yet it is part of the day's unity."
"There can be nothing exclusive about substantial art. It comes directly out of the heart of the experience of life and thinking about life and living life."
"If a composer has a nice wife and some nice children, how can he let the children starve on his dissonances?"
"But maybe music was not intended to satisfy the curious definiteness of man. Maybe it is better to hope that music may always be transcendental language in the most extravagant sense."
"If a poet knows more about a horse than he does about heaven, he might better stick to the horse, and some day the horse may carry him into heaven."
"In 'thinking up' music I usually have some kind of a brass band with wings on it in back of my mind."
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