Art Quote by John Corigliano Download Open image “I think art can reflect tragedy.” — John Corigliano ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Tragedy
I don't think immediate tragedy is a very good source of art. It can be, but too often it's raw and painful and un-dealt-with.… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Usually when tragedy is present, a great art movement is right behind it. — Fantastic Negrito Copy Share Image
“tragedy is suffering elevated into art, it’s art that helps humans endure—and sometimes even transcend—their suffering. It’s” — Jean Hegland Copy Share Image
Artists react to tragedy by doing something both as a way for us as artists to process our pain and our grief and our… — Marc Andreyko Copy Share Image
Art, in fact, can be nothing but violence, cruelty and injustice. — Filippo Tommaso Marinetti Copy Share Image
Art should cause violence to be set aside and it is only art that can accomplish this. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Great art is not a matter of presenting one side or another, but presenting a picture so full of the contradictions, tragedies, [and] insights… — Pauli Murray Copy Share Image
My belief is that art should not be comforting; for comfort, we have mass entertainment and one another. Art should provoke, disturb, arouse our… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Tragedy is the greatest art form of all. It gives us the courage to continue with our life by exposing us to the pain… — Howard Barker Copy Share Image
You become a great composer when you win a Pulitzer. But I think that now it's a completely meaningless award. — John Corigliano Copy Share Image
The structural thinking I use in the concert hall is unnecessary to most film projects, and most film composers make better use of the… — John Corigliano Copy Share Image
Eighty percent of my pieces gravitate towards an A, as a tonal thing, not at the beginning, but somewhere in it. — John Corigliano Copy Share Image
I find respect for a mediocre British composer, as opposed to a really good American, ridiculous because they automatically respect a composer if he's… — John Corigliano Copy Share Image
I think it's good for the composer to teach because you always have new students and you have to begin at the beginning and… — John Corigliano Copy Share Image
Jazz is not the popular culture. Jazz is in the same position in our culture as classical music. A very small minority of people… — John Corigliano Copy Share Image
I don't think that the Pulitzer should be given the way it is. I think the competition should be anonymous. I think completely different… — John Corigliano Copy Share Image
I'm glad I won it because when I grew up the Pulitzer was the award that every composer wanted and I was like that… — John Corigliano Copy Share Image
What I think of as style - and I've gotten to this over years of really thinking about it - is that style is… — John Corigliano Copy Share Image
If you take a violin, you can make it sound 50 different ways. Not just pizzicato and played by the bow, but ponticello, and… — John Corigliano Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
