Quote of the Day

"If [Andrei Tarkovsky's] Sculpting in Time could be distilled to a single message, it would be this: Content and conscience must come before technique—for any artist in any art form."
(Los Angeles Times Book Review)

Quote of the Day

"It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness and of pain... The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love."
--Benjamin Britten

(I don't share that view, but I think I see where he's coming from.)

Quote of the Day

"Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent."
--Victor Hugo

Quote of the Day

"The highest responsibility of philosophers is to serve as the guardians and integrators of human knowledge."
--Ayn Rand