Books Quote by Dejan Stojanovic

The best musicians transpose consciousness into sound; painters do the same for color and shape.

— Haruki Murakami

I'm interested in dissecting the manipulative qualities that always come when you combine sound with images. We have seen this exploited to various degrees…

— Josephine Meckseper

Our present-day artists do not transform, they deform. That gives pleasure to nobody. It changes everything, therefore it changes nothing.

— Adrienne Monnier

“Many of us can maybe sometimes imagine sounds, or have some musical ideas. But to have them consistenly building whole works, and to have…

— Christian Tetzlaff

Through the experience of art, the powers of perception and transformation can be awakened, in both those who create it and those who re-perceive…

— John Paul Caponigro

“The Transformation of music into noise was a planetary process by which mankind was entering the historical phase of total ugliness. The total ugliness…

— Milan Kundera

“Transformation can come in the mysterious guise of shape-shifting, or through a simple change of mind”

— C. R. Strahan

My music must be an artistic reproduction of human speech in all its finest shades. That is, the sounds of human speech, as the…

— Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky

Music, the most abstract and uncanny art, is an eternal river of sound moving through time. We can free ourselves from whatever may be…

— William Westney

“Everything could undergo conversion except the artists. How can you convert disorganizers of past and present order, the chronic dissenters, those dispossessed of the…

— Anaïs Nin

The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected.…

— Anonymous

“Any artist is insulted by the suggestion that art is merely a matter of recording reality, and knows that it is impossible to explain…

— Joan Lindsay