All the others arts are lonely. We paint alone--my picture, my interpretation of the sky. My poem, my novel. But in music--ensemble… — Catherine Drinker Bowen Copy Share Image
One of the marks of true genius is a quality of abundance. A rich, rollicking abundance, enough to give indigestion to ordinary… — Catherine Drinker Bowen Copy Share Image
Great artists treasure their time with a bitter and snarling miserliness. — Catherine Drinker Bowen Copy Share Image
If art has a purpose, it is to interpret life, reproduce it in fresh visions. — Catherine Drinker Bowen Copy Share Image
Artists often think they are going to die before their time. They seem to possess a heightened sense of the passing of… — Catherine Drinker Bowen Copy Share Image
I have noted that, barring accidents, artists whose powers wear best and last longest are those who have trained themselves to work… — Catherine Drinker Bowen Copy Share Image
Writing is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living. — Catherine Drinker Bowen Copy Share Image
A woman's biography - with about eight famous historical exceptions - so often turns out to be the story of a man and the… — Catherine Drinker Bowen Copy Share Image
In writing biography, fact and fiction shouldn't be mixed. And if they are, the fictional points should be printed in red ink, the facts… — Catherine Drinker Bowen Copy Share Image
“Writing is a kind of double living. The writer experiences every thing twice. Once in reality and once in that mirror which waits always… — Catherine Drinker Bowen Copy Share Image
People who carry a musical soul about them are, I think, more receptive than others. They smile more readily. One feels in them a… — Catherine Drinker Bowen Copy Share Image
Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty. — Catherine Drinker Bowen Copy Share Image
Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living. The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and… — Catherine Drinker Bowen Copy Share Image
All the others arts are lonely. We paint alone--my picture, my interpretation of the sky. My poem, my novel. But in music--ensemble music, not… — Catherine Drinker Bowen Copy Share Image
History is, in its essence, exciting; to present it as dull is, to my mind, stark and unforgivable misrepresentation. — Catherine Drinker Bowen Copy Share Image
your concert-goer, though he feed upon symphony as a lamb upon milk, is no true lover if he play no instrument. Your true lover… — Catherine Drinker Bowen Copy Share Image
In early days, I tried not to give librarians any trouble, which was where I made my primary mistake. Librarians like to be given… — Catherine Drinker Bowen Copy Share Image
