Music

“[to] think, in a certain way, of the power and severity of Romanesque paintings.. .Go to the beach and make graphic signs in the sand, draw by pissing on the dry ground, design in space by recording the songs of the birds, the sounds of water and wind.. ..and the chant of insects.”

“I don’t have an issue with serving in the military per se, but serving in the South African army suppressing black people just didn’t seem like a really good way to spend time.”

“Schoenberg's music leads us into a realm where musical experience is a matter not of the ear but of the soul alone, and at this point the music of the future begins.”

“God promised by the mouth of Isaiah that queens should be the nursing mothers of the church.”

“Now among the other things proper to recreate man and give him pleasure, music is either the first or one of the principal;and we must think that it is a gift of God deputed for that purpose'.”

“On a day — alack the day! —<br>Love, whose month is ever May,<br>Spied a blossom passing fair<br>Playing in the wanton air”

“My Beloved is the mountains, <br /> The solitary wooded valleys, <br /> The strange islands, <br /> The roaring torrents, <br /> The whisper of the amorous gales; <br /> The tranquil night <br /> At the approaches of the dawn, <br /> The silent music, <br /> The murmuring solitude, <br /> The supper which revives, and enkindles love. ~ 14 & 15”

“The pope is a good-natured and extremely free-hearted man, who avoids every difficult situation and above all wants peace; he would not undertake a war himself unless forced into it by his advisors; he loves learning; of canon law and literature he possesses remarkable knowledge; he is, moreover, a very excellent musician.”

“There might be very primitive life in our solar system — single-cell animals, that sort of thing. We may know the answer to that in five or ten years. There is very likely to be life in other solar systems, in planets around other stars. But we won't know about that for a long time.”

“The increasing influence of the Bible is marvelously great, penetrating everywhere. It carries with it a tremendous power of freedom and justice guided by a combined force of wisdom and goodness.”

“We have rejected reason because we have found another reason that could be called trans-rational, which has its own law, construction, and sense.. .This reason has found a way-Cubism-of expressing the object.”

“Consequently, in the chain of reactions accompanying the creative act, a link is missing. This gap which represents the inability of the artist to express fully his intention, this difference between what he intended to realize and did realize, is the personal 'art coefficient', contained in the work.”

“Lord, what am I, that, with unceasing care,<br>Thou didst seek after me, — that Thou didst wait,<br>Wet with unhealthy dews, before my gate,<br>And pass the gloomy nights of winter there?”

“We know today that form is always the product of an inquisitorial process of matter – the specific reaction of matter when subjected to the terrible coercion of space choking it on all sides, pressing and squeezing it out, producing the swellings that burst form it life to the exact limits of the rigorous contours of its own originality of reaction.”

“Leo X succeeded Julius II, and under his pontificate, Latin Christianity assumed a pagan, Greco-Roman character, which, passing from art into manners, gives to this epoch a strange complexion. Crimes for the moment disappeared, to give place to vices; but to charming vices, vices in good taste, such as those indulged in by Alcibiades and sung by Catullus.”

“Just as a bird, wherever it goes, flies with its wings as its only burden, so too, the bhikkhu becomes content with robes to protect his body and with almsfood to maintain his stomach, and wherever he goes he sets out taking only these with him. Possessing this aggregate of noble virtue, he experiences within himself a bliss that is blameless.”

“Did the great Creator first draw her in a masterpiece, <br> And then touch life into his art? <br> Or did he make her in his mind alone, <br> Drawing on beauty’s every part? <br> No—considering her singular perfection <br> And her maker’s true omnipotence, <br> I suppose her some quite unique creation <br> In femininity’s treasure house.”

“In your composer Schönberg's works, you have realized what I, albeit in uncertain form, have so greatly longed for in music. The independent progress through their own destinies, the independent life of the individual voices in your compositions, is exactly what I am trying to find in my painting.”

“<p>Come live with me and be my Love,<br />And we will all the pleasures prove<br />That hills and valleys, dales and fields,<br />Or woods or steepy mountain yields.</p><p>And we will sit upon the rocks,<br />And see the shepherds feed their flocks<br />By shallow rivers, to whose falls<br />Melodious birds sing madrigals.</p>And I will make thee beds of roses<br />And a thousand fragrant posies.”

“If the masc. [masculine] is the vertic. [vertical] line, then a man will recognize this element in the rising line of a forest; in the horizont. [horizontal] lines of the sea he will see his complement. Woman, with the horizont. line as element, sees herself in the recumbent lines of the sea, and her complement in the vert. lines of the forest.”

“A thousand graces diffusing <br /> He passed through the groves in haste, <br /> And merely regarding them <br /> As He passed <br /> Clothed them with His beauty. ~ 5”