Aaron Copland Quotes
The composer who is frightened of losing his artistic integrity through contact with a mass audience is no longer aware of the meaning of the word art.
Quotes to Explore
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Surreal fiction is a sophisticated art form. Events happen divorced from conventional logic, as events in a dream may happen. But unlike dreams, everything in the story contributes to an overall coherent point, impression or emotion.
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Besides black art, there is only automation and mechanization.
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I design all my sets. With my tour and my album artwork, I co-design that with people who are better at drawing than me. But I've got a good imagination. I went to art school so I understand how to communicate my ideas.
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Don't worry so much about your self-esteem. Worry more about your character. Integrity is its own reward.
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If it were not for the fact that editors have become so timorous in these politically correct times, I would probably have a greater readership than I have.
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There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.
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Contemporary art will help me to modernise our society.
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Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.
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Art never harms itself by keeping aloof from the social problems of the day: rather, by so doing, it more completely realises for us that which we desire.
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In an era ruled by materialism and unstable geopolitics, art must be restored to the center of public education.
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I feel the art world in New York has a stronger following than Britain. If you go to a New York art district on a Saturday morning, it will be so busy with families and openings - art is much more ingrained in the culture.
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Perhaps at some time in the future, when you ask a friend to come up and look at your etchings, you will plug in your collection of video art.
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Any art communicates what you're in the mood to receive.
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Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.
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I'd like to do some crazy art installations and design some weird synthesizers and work with other people and make some fun stuff for a bit. Maybe tap into virtual reality stuff or maybe write another record... We'll see.
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Figure skating is a mixture of art and sport.
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No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.
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If a rock band throws a TV set out of a hotel window, it's seen as anti-Establishment.
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I have the responsibility to let the people know what happened to me, and did I commit the crime or if I didn’t, what is the real accusation? Why am I in this condition today? I think it reflects our human condition in this piece of land, and if I don’t bear some responsibility . . . . many, many people, their voice can never be heard.
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Bottoms line: terrorists are always at work.
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I think France should be free, independent, and be the cultural heart of the world because those play a balance in the world.
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The composer who is frightened of losing his artistic integrity through contact with a mass audience is no longer aware of the meaning of the word art.
