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“Why waste money on psychotherapy when you can listen to the B Minor Mass?”

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Michael Torke, born on September 22, 1961, is an American composer known for his modernist approach to harmony and rhythm. His works span a wide range of genres, including symphonic, chamber, and electronic music. Torke's compositions have been performed at numerous international music festivals and have earned him various awards. more

“What feeling feels like over time. An attempt to screw up what feeling feels like over time. Heartbreak and a high C.... The often welcome melodic lie.... The soul's undersong. The orchestration of randomness, a flirtation with the boundaries of silence and space.... a reminder that the self wants to disappear, be taken away from itself and returned.”

Want Feels Soul Self Feelings Lying Space Silence Music Taken Disappear Boundaries Welcome Screws Reminders Screw Ups Randomness Flirtation Orchestration

Author:Stephen Dunn

“All deep things are song. It seems somehow the very central essence of us, song; as if all the rest were but wrappages and hulls!”

Ifs Seems Song Music Music Is Essence Piano Playing Music Hull Deep Things

Book:The Collected Works of Thomas Carlyle

Source: The Collected Works of Thomas Carlyle

“We seem to have lost contact with the earlier, more profound functions of art, which have always had to do with personal and collective empowerment, personal growth, communion with this world, and the search for what lies beneath and above this world.”

World Art Seems Lying Lost Growth Beauty Design This World Empowerment Function Personal Growth Profound Contact Collectives Communion

Book:No More Secondhand Art

Source: No More Secondhand Art

“It isn't that I don't like sweet disorder, but it has to be judiciously arranged.”

Art Design Sweet Chaos Disorder

Author:Vita Sackville-West

“A garden without its statue is like a sentence without its verb.”

Art Design Garden Sentences Statues Verbs

Book:Meek Americans: & Other European Trifles

Source: Meek Americans: & Other European Trifles

“Liberal gardeners are people who feel that, through gardening, we can alleviate our sense of alienation from nature; and that, through good gardening, we can repair some of the damage we have done to our environment. The most extreme liberals believe that there is an original or a natural state in which the environment would be if we hadn't shown up on the scene, and that we have not only the ability but also a moral imperative to help nature return to this state.”

“Gardening as far as Gardening is Art, or entitled to that appellation, is a deviation from nature; for if the true taste consists, as many hold, in banishing every appearance of Art, or any traces of the footsteps of man, it would then be no longer a Garden.”

Ifs Men Art Nature Design Taste Garden Appearance Gardening Entitled Footsteps Deviation

Book:The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds: Containing His Discourses, Idlers, A Journey to Flanders and Holland, and His Commentary on Du Fresnoy's Art of Painting; to which is Prefixed an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author by Edward Malone

Source: The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds: Containing His Discourses, Idlers, A Journey to Flanders and Holland, and His Commentary on Du Fresnoy's Art of Painting; to which is Prefixed an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author by Edward Malone

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