Ned Rorem Quotes About Art
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Perfection is no more a requisite to art than to heroes. Frigidaires are perfect. Beauty limps. My frigidaire has had to be replaced.
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Art's the biggest vanity: the assumption that one's view of peace or fright or beauty is permanently communicable.
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Music is the sole art which evokes nostalgia for the future.
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The hardest of all the arts to speak of is music, because music has no meaning to speak of
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Art means to dare - and to have been right.
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Perfection is no more a requisite to art than to heroes.
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The art of translation lies less in knowing the other language than in knowing your own.
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