“The artist may be well advised to keep his work to himself till it is completed, because no one can readily help him or advise him with it.”— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, amazon.com
“If music was studied, recreated or now-first-expressed emotion, why was he listening with such strained intensity, as if to learn some answer, solve some important life-riddle? Wasn't it the case, in fact, that he'd been listening all this while for the wrong thing entirely; that music— for that mat…”— John Gardner, Peter Mickelsson, amazon.com
“It is quite true that today a great deal of art grows out of exhibitionist impulses. Certainly some of the worst does. Maybe some of the best. It may even be possible that all art involves a certain exhibitionism at least of some vague sublimated kind.”— Walter Ong, cdm.slu.edu