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The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.

When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.

I put a Phrygian cap on the old dictionary.

Ever since I began to compose, I have remained true to my starting principle: not to write a page because no matter what public, or what pretty girl wanted it to be thus or thus; but to write solely as I myself thought best, and as it gave me pleasure.

O, had I but followed the arts!

I like what I hear as a resulting combination of these two strands… something of a combination of familiarity and, for lack of a better word, strangeness.

My horizon on humanity is enlarged by reading the writers of poems, seeing a painting, listening to some music, some opera, which has nothing at all to do with a volatile human condition or struggle or whatever. It enriches me as a human being.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself.

Fear is a problem with film music and films; people want to be conventional, and there’s more commercialism today. If you are not daring in your art, you’re bankrupt.