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Ned Rorem Quotes about Art

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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”

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