Quote Tag

Music is a way to express what words can’t say.

A subject for a great poet would be God’s boredom after the seventh day of creation.

Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues.

Though everything else may appear shallow and repulsive, even the smallest task in music is so absorbing, and carries us so far away from town, country, earth, and all worldly things, that it is truly a blessed gift of God.

I think that every actor’s first responsibility is to be as interesting as possible.

When I’m ready to make a photograph, I think I quite obviously see in my minds eye something that is not literally there in the true meaning of the word. I’m interested in something which is built up from within, rather than just extracted from without.

There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.

The arrogance of the artist is a very profound thing, and it fortifies you.

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

Most creative work is a process of people passing ideas and inspirations from the past into the future and adding their own creativity along the way.