You cannot set art off in a corner and hope for it to have vitality, reality, and substance.
About Charles Ives
Charles Edward Iveswas an American modernist composer, actuary and businessman. Ives was among the earliest renowned American composers to achieve recognition on a global scale.
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You cannot set art off in a corner and hope for it to have vitality, reality, and substance.
American modernist composer (1874-1954)
If a poet knows more about a horse than he does about heaven, he might better stick to the horse, and some day the horse may carry him into heaven.
American modernist composer (1874-1954)
A rare experience of a moment at daybreak, when something in nature seems to reveal all consciousness, cannot be explained at noon. Yet it is part of the day’s unity.
American modernist composer (1874-1954)
Vagueness is at times an indication of nearness to a perfect truth.
American modernist composer (1874-1954)
If a composer has a nice wife and some nice children, how can he let the children starve on his dissonances?
American modernist composer (1874-1954)
It is conceivable that what is unified form to the author or composer may of necessity be formless to his audience.
American modernist composer (1874-1954)
Every great inspiration is but an experiment.
American modernist composer (1874-1954)
But maybe music was not intended to satisfy the curious definiteness of man. Maybe it is better to hope that music may always be transcendental language in the most extravagant sense.
American modernist composer (1874-1954)
One thing I am certain of is that, if I have done anything good in music, it was, first, because of my father, and second, because of my wife.
American modernist composer (1874-1954)
Expression, to a great extent, is a matter of terms, and terms are anyone’s. The meaning of ‘God’ may have a billion interpretations if there be that many souls in the world.
American modernist composer (1874-1954)
In ‘thinking up’ music I usually have some kind of a brass band with wings on it in back of my mind.
American modernist composer (1874-1954)
The fabric of existence weaves itself whole.
American modernist composer (1874-1954)
There can be nothing exclusive about substantial art. It comes directly out of the heart of the experience of life and thinking about life and living life.
American modernist composer (1874-1954)