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“On the corner of 57th and 7th Avenue sits the most famous concert hall in the world. No less a figure than when Tchaikovsky led the first performances in 1891. Virtually every major artist has performed there. There is simply no place like it. The first time I stepped foot in Carnegie Hall was in 1964.”

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Book:Leading Tones: Reflections on Music, Musicians, and the Music Industry

Source: Leading Tones: Reflections on Music, Musicians, and the Music Industry

“The artist needs to sit patiently at the feet of Nature in all Her moods and nuances and silently develop the skills to honour Her. There are no recipes for Autumn.”

Needs Artist Nature Feet Skills Mood Autumn Honour Recipes Nuance

Author:Robert Genn

“To burn always with this hard, gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life. ... While all melts under our feet, we may well grasp at any exquisite passion, or any contribution to knowledge that seems by a lifted horizon to set the spirit free for a moment, or any stirring of the senses, strange dyes, strange colours, and curious odours, or work of the artist's hands, or the face of one's friend.”

Source: The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry

“The man who tells the tale if he has a tale worth telling will know exactly what he is about and this business of the artist as a sort of starry-eyed inspired creature, dancing along, with his feet two or three feet above the surface of the earth, not really knowing what sort of prints he's leaving behind him, is nothing like the truth.”

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Book:Lord of the Flies

Source: Lord of the Flies

“Let us not forget that group of self-taught, outsider artists who never stepped foot in any classroom and cared less about even exhibiting, and yet ended up with an audience of avid admirers.”

Self Artist Forget Audience Groups Feet Taught Recognition Classroom Outsiders Admirer Avid Self Taught

Author:Scott Kahn