Allievi Quotes & Sayings

A work of art does not answer questions, it provokes them; and its essential meaning is in the tension between the contradictory answers. — Leonard Bernstein

Somewhere where people aren't so mad would be nice, but I don't know if there is anywhere like that. — Elliott Smith

Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal. — Dante Alighieri

A kind word, a word of encouragement or admiration, could shift the heaviest, most recalcitrant baggage. — Alexander McCall Smith

Like love, mourning affects the world - and the worldly - with unreality, with importunity. I resist the world, I suffer from what it demands of me, from its demands. The world increases my sadness, my dryness, my confusion, my irritation, etc. The world depresses me. — Roland Barthes

Could the waters of the Atlantic be drawn off, so as to expose to view this great sea-gash, which separates continents, and extends from the Arctic to the Antarctic, it would present a scene the most rugged, grand, and imposing. The very ribs of the solid earth, with the foundations of the sea, would be brought to light, and we should have presented to us at one view the empty cradle of the ocean ... — Matthew Fontaine Maury