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Gian Carlo Menotti

"Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding."

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"Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding."

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"For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art."

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"One writes music because winter is eternal and because, if one didn't, the wolves and blizzards will be at one's throat all the sooner."

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"Not everyone who loves music can play the tune."

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"It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists."

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"The movies remind me of the Triangle Club at Princeton. I used to belong to it, and we always started out firm in our decision to create new and startling things. We always ended up by producing the same old show. In the beginning, our enthusiasm and ideals discarded as rubbish all the old fossilized plots."

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"A stone is ingrained with geological and historical memories."

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"Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art."

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"Art is something that opens up and enhances your emotions and that's what I like to think I'm doing."

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"The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity."

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"Melody is a form of remembrance. It must have a quality of inevitability in our ears."
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"Waiting and hoping are the whole of life, and as soon as a dream is realized it is destroyed."
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"A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance."
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"Hell begins on the day when God grants us a clear vision of all that we might have achieved, of all the gifts which we have wasted, of all that we might have done which we did not do."
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"Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding."
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