A record is a concert without halls and a museum whose curator is the owner.

The purpose of art is not the release of a momentary ejection of adrenaline but rather the gradual, lifelong construction of a state of wonder and serenity.

Isolation is the indispensable component of human happiness.

One does not play the piano with one's fingers, one plays the piano with one's mind.

There is a craft and a power in listening.

u201Che G-minor Symphony consists of eight remarkable measures surrounded by a half-hour of banality.

Whenever one honestly defies a tradition, one becomes, in reality, the more responsible to it.

The purpose of art is the lifelong construction of a state of wonder.

I detest audiences - not in their individual components, but en masse I detest audiences. I think they're a force of evil. It seems to me rule of mob law.

If an artist wants to use his mind for creative work, cutting oneself off from society is a necessary thing

My moods are inversely related to the clarity of the sky.

A mother gives you a life, a mother-in-law gives you her life.

Society has parted man from man, neglectful of the universal heart.

Please take a long, hard look at your textbook, cause I'm history

I can only display what I've been nurtured with, which is this worldview which has become my view. If I displayed anything different from it in my work, I wouldn't deserve this heritage.

Once you want something, everything changes. Now I want everything. More and more and more.

I do get lots of links to advance screeners, which helps, but there's no way I could do my job without the full-on cable subscription.

She thought about him all the time - not so much about Doug the individual, but rather about the nature of love, and the shock of learning how quickly it could disappear.

My relationship with my mother is not cute.

Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.

The fears and anxieties and obsessions wrapped up in being a parent.