We pity or condemn the communist peoples of the world for being bound in the chains of doctrine. So are we. Our… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
The world of sight is still limitless. It is the artist who limits vision to the cramped dimensions of his own ego. — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
To be successful in the world of art you must, of course, have talent, although very small talents have gone very far… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
on Broadway money rules. Like a host of vultures, the ticket brokers, the speculators, the craft unions, the agents, the backers, the… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
fear has always been a diminisher of life. Whether bred in the bogs of superstition or clothed in the brocades of dogma and ritual,… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
Timing and arrogance are decisive factors in the successful use of talent. — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
To be at peace with self, to find company and nourishment in self-this would be the test of the free and productive psyche. — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
The process of maturing is an art to be learned, an effort to be sustained. By the age of fifty you have made yourself… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
A musical audience is at best uninspiring, at worst definitely drab. ... Respectability hangs like a pall over the orchestra and the boxes; a… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
the overwhelming majority of people who are engaged in the processes of thought and expression are Democrats because the essence of thought is exploration… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
The suppression of civil liberties is too many less a matter for horror than the curtailment of the freedom to profit. — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
Euthanasia ... is simply to be able to die with dignity at a moment when life is devoid of it. — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
To know the good is to react against the bad. Indifference is the mark of deprivation. — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
Surely the hold of great music on the listener is precisely this: that the listener is made whole; and at the same time part… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
It is privilege of living to be acutely, agonizingly conscious of the moment that is always present and always passing. — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
