“Music - so different from painting - is the art which we enjoy most in company with others. A symphony, presented in a room with one other listener, would please him but little.” LittlesArtDifferentEnjoyRoomsCompanyPaintingPleaseListenersSymphony Book:On Music and Musicians Source: On Music and Musicians
“Abolishing the book is like abolishing the symphony, or sonata form, or the sonnet, or the wall painting.” BookFormPaintingWallSymphonySonnetSonatas Author:David Gelernter
“Art lives on the mental plane (the real painting is not the set of dry pigments on the canvas nor is a symphony the sequence of sound waves that convey it to our ear) but, as the post-modernists insist, is reinterpreted in new contexts by each appreciator. As for gossip, which includes the vast majority of our thoughts, its essence is its relation to a unique local part of time and space.” ArtRealSoundSpacePaintingUniqueEssenceEarsRelationMathematicsMajorityWaveLocalsPostsPlanesDryGossipCanvasOur ThoughtsTime And SpaceSequenceSymphonyPigmentArt LifeSound Waves Author:David Mumford
“God comes to us in theater in the way we communicate with each other, whether it be a symphony orchestra, or a wonderful ballet, or a beautiful painting, or a play. It's a way of expressing our humanity.” WayPlayBeautifulHumanityWonderfulPaintingTheaterCommunicateTheatreBalletOrchestraSymphonySymphony OrchestrasBeautiful Paintings Author:Julie Harris
“What a director does... essentially, it's storytelling, but a director also controls the feeling and the sounds and the texture. It's an act of creation, like a symphony or a painting or a story. But with different tools.” DoeDifferentStoriesFeelingsSoundCreationPaintingDirectorsToolsStorytellingSymphonyTexture Author:John Carpenter