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.
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.
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.
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.
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