"The purpose of art is the lifelong construction……" — Glenn Gould
"The purpose of art is the lifelong construction of a state of wonder."
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Glenn Gould
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23 Quotes by Glenn Gould
Glenn Gould has 23 quotes on this site.
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Theirs [the Beatles] is a happy, cocky, belligerently resourceless brand of harmonic primitivism... In the Liverpudlian repertoire, the indulged amateurishness…
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Mozart died too late rather than too soon.
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The purpose of art is not the release of a momentary ejection of adrenaline but rather the gradual, lifelong construction…
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My moods are inversely related to the clarity of the sky.
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If an artist wants to use his mind for creative work, cutting oneself off from society is a necessary thing
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I detest audiences - not in their individual components, but en masse I detest audiences. I think they're a force…
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I don't approve of people who watch television, but I am one of them.
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Isolation is the indispensable component of human happiness.
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One does not play the piano with one's fingers, one plays the piano with one's mind.
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Once I turned pro, so to speak, I put away childish things forever.
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The nature of the contrapuntal experience is that every note has to have a past and a future on the…
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A record is a concert without halls and a museum whose curator is the owner.
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A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the…
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Let each man exercise the art he knows.
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Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them…
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The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
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Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,…
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It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
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There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex,…
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Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
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