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"I am quite certain in my heart of hearts that modern music and modern art is not a conspiracy, but is a form of truth and integrity for those who practise it honestly, decently and with all their being."
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"I live, love and loathe my characters. They stole my mind. They stole my heart."
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"Art is always in the eyes of the beholder. Only posterity has the right to point out our mistakes."
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"Is art really the priesthood that demands the pure in heart who belong to it wholly?"
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"Perhaps this is the purpose of all art, all writing, on the murders, fiction and non-fiction: Simply to participate."
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"Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions."
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"Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first."
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"The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses."
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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."
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"Create with the heart, build with the mind."
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"If a man devotes himself to art, much evil is avoided that happens otherwise if one is idle."
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"Nature has different times."
Nature

"Poetry is fascinating. As soon as it begins the poetry has changed the thing into something extra, and somehow prose can go over into poetry."
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"The blues are like the fugue in 18th century. It's probably the music that belongs most to our time."
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"Music remains the most strange of the materials because we don't understand what happens when music moves you."
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"Music is a performing art, as any Native American will tell you. It isn't there in the score."
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"Shakespeare fascinated me. He hardly ever left the country. His imagination was worldwide though reading."
Imagination

"Music is a performance and needs the audience."
Music

"Beethoven suppressed everything, his personal life disappeared until he was locked inside. That is a figure quite extreme."
Life

"Shiva danced the world into existence... that's a very nice thought."
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"I remain a humanist. We are a very curious race."
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