"I don't see 'lines of force' as being……" — Brian Ferneyhough
"I don't see 'lines of force' as being destructive, except to the extent that they are exclusively traceable through observance of the path of distorted material left in their wake."
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35 Quotes by Brian Ferneyhough
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Hence my obstinate emphasis on stylistic continuity from work to work rather than specific sibling relationships between the individual work…
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If the work of art is to continue pursuing the vision of both being in and of the world but…
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What makes a specific quality or quantity of innovation retain its intense newness over the years?
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If nothing is at risk, nothing is established.
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Questioning the nature and implications of liminal instances necessarily involves failure, if only in the specifically technical sense of entering…
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In my model, important interference phenomena arise when individual strata come into contact. These chaotic fluctuations are, I suppose, what…
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There would seem to be a limit, even for an art preoccupied with boundaries and transgressions, beyond which a work…
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When I left Europe in 1987 I did so with the thought that my relevance as a composition teacher would…
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Sometimes one can be so closely involved with things that the larger context is lost to view.
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Actually, most things I say in public lead more or less directly to my own compositional practice, so I should…
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Naturally enough, I couldn't have foreseen the vast sea change which has come upon that scene as a result of…
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As a necessary prerequisite to the creation of new forms of expression one might, I suppose, argue that current sensibilities…
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Liberal capitalism is not at all the Good of humanity. Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive…
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I definitely see the good in people. Certainly in my own life I strive to be somebody who is functional…
— Alan Ball
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Moral justification is a powerful disengagement mechanism. Destructive conduct is made personally and socially acceptable by portraying it in the…
— Albert Bandura
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I've always had this impulse to be destructive.
— Russell Brand
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Oh yes, there's lots of great food in America. But the fast food is about as destructive and evil as…
— Anthony Bourdain
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I don't understand why, in my work, writing is always so dangerous. It's very destructive. People who write books are…
— A. S. Byatt
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For me, acting was a way of taking destructive energy and doing something productive with it, and in that way…
— Nicolas Cage
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Like hatred, jealousy is forbidden by the laws of life because it is essentially destructive.
— Alexis Carrel
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The more settled I've become, the more problematic my characters have become. There was a period when I wrote sensitive…
— Nick Cave
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Another great evil arising from this desire to be thought rich; or rather, from the desire not to be thought…
— William Cobbett
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Creative powers can just as easily turn out to be destructive. It rests solely with the moral personality whether they…
— Carl Jung
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Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of…
— Millicent Fenwick
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