Ability Quote by Glenn Gould

The music of the supreme architect, Bach, is filled with pages of discursive argument and rumination, glorifying the nameless whole by a rich embroidery…

— Russell Sherman

“The vitality of art is its capacity for infinite expansion. One form doesn't preclude another any more than the existence of Mozart makes the…

— Lloyd Alexander

To contradict, even in little matters, is the supreme necessity of art today.

— Witold Gombrowicz

“The exquisite world of imagination opened up by any powerful music is itself problematic, for it tempts listeners to put into words the feelings…

— Anonymous

No one has been able to define or synthesize that precarious, splendid, and perhaps untidy instant when the creative process begins. This is what…

— Norman Cousins

“Perhaps never before in history has the artist been so certain that the more daring, iconoclastic, absurd, and inaccessible he is, the more he…

— Mircea Eliade

Art on the contrary sought this harmony in practice [of art itself]. More and more in its creations it has given inwardness to that…

— Piet Mondrian

A great piece of music is beautiful regardless of how it is performed. Any prelude or fugue of Bach can be played at any…

— Anonymous

A successful work of art is not one which resolves contradictions in a spurious harmony, but one which expresses the idea of harmony negatively…

— Theodor Adorno

My thesis statement would be—Bach didn't write Baroque music. He wrote great music.

— Chris Thile

One could think of a person who seems to have two opposing and contradictory sides to his personality; but it turns out that in…

— Manuel Alvarez Bravo

Bach is the supreme genius of music... This man, who knows everything and feels everything, cannot write one note, however unimportant it may appear,…

— Pablo Casals