“I realized that the camera is a tool, but it is also a way of thought.”
David Hockney · Various interviews, 1980s-1990s
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Poetry Quotes
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63 quotes on poetry and the craft of writing — from the classics to the everyday.
“All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.”
Leo Tolstoy · Anna Karenina, 1878
“I want to make music that is as natural as a forest.”
Ryuichi Sakamoto
“There is no music without structure, but structure alone is not music.”
Ryuichi Sakamoto
“I think music is the most universal language, and it is a language that can say things that words cannot.”
Ryuichi Sakamoto · Interview, Red Bull Music Academy, 2014
“The sound of rain needs no translation.”
Ryuichi Sakamoto
“Music is not something you create. It is something you discover.”
Ryuichi Sakamoto
“I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.”
Anne Frank · The Diary of a Young Girl, 1947
“Every great piece of music is a set of problems solved so well that the listener never notices the problems existed.”
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“The audience hears the finished piece. The composer lived inside every wrong version of it first.”
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“You do not compose in spite of your rules. You think through them, the way water thinks through rock.”
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“Silence before a note is not empty. It is the whole argument, waiting to be made.”
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