Henricus Isaac Quotes & Sayings

Art has to change things, and if it was immediately acceptable it would not be doing the job. — Antony Gormley

It was at Harvard not quite forty years ago that I went into an anechoic [totally silent] chamber not expecting in that silent room to hear two sounds: one high, my nervous system in operation, one low, my blood in circulation. The reason I did not expect to hear those two sounds was that they were set into vibration without any intention on my part. That experience gave my life direction, the exploration of nonintention. No one else was doing that. I would do it for us. I did not know immediately what I was doing, nor, after all these years, have I found out much. I compose music. — John Cage

Dalai Lama is transforming those criteria - and the whole way of conducting politics. He's conducting politics in a much deeper way than most politicians are able to. He's the only politician I know of who's a monk. The Pope, of course, is in a similar position, but the Pope isn't in the same way leading a country of many million people. — Pico Iyer

You take jobs so much of the time when you don't need to necessarily work for a living, but it becomes important who you are going to work with. — John Larroquette

To be alone and to be drunk with your own aloneness is what meditation is all about. Be in the world, but don't be of it. — Rajneesh

I always said God was against art and I still believe it. — Edward Elgar

Any faith in Him, however small, is better than any belief about Him, however great. — George MacDonald

The Republican game is hilariously transparent: if Obama doesn't shift to more muscular postures, he's not a patriot. If he does, he's a flip-flopper. — Maureen Dowd