Art Quote by Van Cliburn

“The Steinway piano - with its beauty and power - is the perfect medium for expressing the performer's art, drama and poetry.”

Van Cliburn

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An artist can be truly evaluated only after he is dead. At the very 11th hour, he might do something that will eclipse everything…

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An artist can only be evaluated after he's dead. At the 11th hour he might do something that will eclipse everything else.

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Music is like painting in sound. You take it into your inner heart and never lose it. It's eternally mysterious.

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If you hold onto the beauty and inspiration and the clarity that is music, you will have an anchor, you will not be too…

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But classical music is not entertainment, and I feel viciously strong about that. Classical music is forever. Entertainment is something that is here today,…

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I'm not a success, I'm a sensation.

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The brick of my life is music, but the mortar is faith.

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Everything I chose, I had already played in concert. For the competition, I wanted to pick pieces I know that people like.

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I have never known anyone from Texas, no matter how far they go or what they do, who isn't proud of being from Texas.

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