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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Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual arts have been in slow decline for nearly 40 years. No major figure of profound influence has emerged in painting or sculpture since the waning of Pop Art and the birth of Minimalism in the early 1970s.
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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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Rock music has always embraced - and even represented - rebellion, rowdiness, and a robust disdain for social decorum. But along with more classical art forms like theater, opera, and the symphony, it's suffering from the distracted, smartphone-carrying audiences of the digital age.
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When you are criticizing someone, you should speak only to your own experience - not others'.
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Washington has become this place that people don't leave. It has become this permanent feudal class.
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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.
