Ned Rorem Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

• The hardest of all the arts to speak of is music, because music has no meaning to speak of

  Ned Rorem

  Art, Speak, Music Is

  Ned Rorem (2013). “The Later Diaries of Ned Rorem: 1961–1972”, p.70, Open Road Media

• Art means to dare - and to have been right.

  Ned Rorem

  Art, Mean, Dare

  W Magazine, October 10, 1980.

• Art's the biggest vanity: the assumption that one's view of peace or fright or beauty is permanently communicable.

  Ned Rorem

  Art, Vanity, Views

  Ned Rorem (2013). “Setting the Tone: Essays and a Diary”, p.110, Open Road Media

• 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

  Art, Hero, Perfect

  Ned Rorem (1974). “The final diary, 1961-1972”

• Perfection is no more a requisite to art than to heroes.

  Ned Rorem

  Art, Hero, Perfection

  Ned Rorem (2013). “Settling the Score: Essays on Music”, Open Road Media

• The art of translation lies less in knowing the other language than in knowing your own.

  Ned Rorem

  Art, Lying, Knowing

  Ned Rorem (2013). “The Later Diaries of Ned Rorem: 1961–1972”, p.63, Open Road Media

• Music is the sole art which evokes nostalgia for the future.

  Ned Rorem

  Art, Nostalgia, Evoke

  Ned Rorem (2013). “Setting the Tone: Essays and a Diary”, p.245, Open Road Media

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