Atonal Composers Quotes & Sayings

I feel it is a blessing, a duty, an honor, that we give the love that we have, and we share the lives that we have with our fullest heart. — Bellamy Young

Since art is a virtue of the intellect, it demands to communicate with the entire universe of the intellect. Hence it is that the normal climate of art is intelligence and knowledge: its normal soil, the civilized heritage of a consistent and integrated system of beliefs and values; its normal horizon , the infinity of human experience enlighted by the passionate insight of anguish or the intellectual virtues of a contemplative mind. — Jacques Maritain

Frankly, I thought we would have lost the House by now. — Ed Gillespie

Show business is like a bumpy bus ride. Sometimes you find yourself temporarily juggled out of your seat and holding onto a strap. But the main idea is to hang in there and not be shoved out the door. — Cliff Robertson

I usually think of art as having a measurable content of nourishment, whether factual or emotional or whatever, and I try to make sure that whatever I do has as much nourishment as I can muster. — Jeffrey Lewis

I don't want to be that person, who just takes things. — Gayle Forman

I don't know Jiu-Jitsu, I don't know wrestling, all I know is how to fight. Period. — James Toney

Whether writing fiction or nonfiction, I've never had the sense I was 'making up' a character. It feels more like watching people reveal themselves, ever more deeply, more intimately. — Kathryn Harrison

I think there's a danger in how we can get addicted to the things that reaffirm to us who we are. For example, Facebook; people who make these Facebook posts about what's happening to them, just so people will chime in and give them positive reinforcement. — Carrie Coon