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The duty of the words is to say just as much as the music has left unsaid and no more.

Ralph Vaughan Williams, Gustav Holst (1959). “Heirs and rebels: letters written to each other and occasional writings on music”

I deny that either singers or conductors can "create" or work creatively - this, as I have always said, is a conception that leads to the abyss.

Letter to Giulio Ricordi (April 11, 1871) quoted in "Giuseppe Verdi" (1959) by Franco Abbiati, Milano: Ricordi, vol. 3, (p. 448), translated by Edward Downes in "Verdi: The Man in His Letters" edited by Franz Werfel and Paul Stefan, New York: L. B. Fischer, (pp. 301-302), 1942.

Photographs have a relevance for things that cannot be said.

Olafur Eliasson, Matthew Drutt (2004). “Olafur Eliasson: photographs”

Everything that can be said, can be said clearly.

Ludwig Wittgenstein (2014). “The Tractatus According to Its Own Form”, p.76, Lulu.com

Can the sarcasm,' he said. 'Please, I always use fresh sarcasm, never canned.

Laurell K. Hamilton (2002). “Circus of the Damned: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.113, Penguin

...much of what was said did not matter, and that much of what mattered could not be said.

Katherine Boo (2012). “Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, death, and hope in a Mumbai undercity”, p.172, Random House