Art Quote by Ned Rorem Download Open image “Music is the sole art which evokes nostalgia for the future.” — Ned Rorem ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Evoke Music Music is Nostalgia Sole Time
I think it's very disheartening and undermining to focus on nostalgia or youthful sentimentality as the lens through which you view art and culture,… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
Music can be a way for me to think back a lot of the time, almost like an opening into all the nostalgia I… — Amber Mark Copy Share Image
It's always so rewarding, gratifying to me, as an artist and a writer, to see how this music gets more important for a lot… — Ed Kowalczyk Copy Share Image
Music evokes so many feelings in us, memories, nostalgia, things that are connected to our past. — Olga Kurylenko Copy Share Image
In music, trends are always rising and fading in popularity, but nostalgia never dies. — Anthony Fantano Copy Share Image
Greatness is not the effect of which inspiration is the cause. We are all inspired, but we are all not great. — Ned Rorem Copy Share Image
Intelligence is silence, truth is being invisible. But what a racket I make in declaring this. — Ned Rorem Copy Share Image
If a composer could state in words what being a composer means, he would no longer need to be a composer. — Ned Rorem Copy Share Image
Perfection is no more a requisite to art than to heroes. Frigidaires are perfect. Beauty limps. My frigidaire has had to be replaced. — Ned Rorem Copy Share Image
Inspiration could be called inhaling the memory of an act never experienced. — Ned Rorem Copy Share Image
The Great don't innovate, they fertilize seeds planted by lackeys, they leave to others the inhaling of the flowers whose roots they've manured. A… — Ned Rorem Copy Share Image
If music could be translated into human speech, it would no longer need to exist. — Ned Rorem Copy Share Image
As a lifelong pacifist, Quaker, and a gay man, I despair that gays and lesbians are expending energy trying to get into the military… — Ned Rorem Copy Share Image
“We endow our poor lovers with godly traits, and then destroy them for being mortal. ” — Ned Rorem Copy Share Image
All men are forced into one of two categories: those with eleven fingers and those without. — Ned Rorem Copy Share Image
Art's the biggest vanity: the assumption that one's view of peace or fright or beauty is permanently communicable. — Ned Rorem 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
