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> [In Britten or Berg, there's a tension between the sweet and the sour, between the familiar and the unfamiliar, the tonal and the atonal, the happy and the sad. That, to me, is what all western art is about -…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-hough/in-britten-or-berg-there-s-a-tension-between-the-sweet-and-the-sour/)

[Stephen Hough](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-hough/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3c9/stephen-hough-6372_anything_in-britten-or-berg-there-s-a-tension-bet_22211.jpg)

> [All art is the tension, expressed between the uncontainable and its one perfect inevitable form.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robin-morgan/all-art-is-the-tension-expressed-between-the-uncontainable-and-its/)

[Robin Morgan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robin-morgan/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fca/robin-morgan-9036_art_all-art-is-the-tension-expressed-between_1806166.jpg)

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