“Rest springs from strife and dissonant chords beget
Divinest harmonies.”
Lewis Morris (poet) (1833–1907) Welsh poet in the English language
Love's Suicide, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
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Camille Paglia (1947) American writer
Source: Vamps and Tramps (1994), "No Law in the Arena: A Pagan Theory of Sexuality", p. 67
Context: Pornography is art, sometimes harmonious, sometimes dissonant. Its glut and glitter are a Babylonian excess. Modern middle-class women cannot bear the thought that their hard-won professional achievements can be outweighed in an instant by a young hussy flashing a little tits and ass. But the gods have given her power, and we must welcome it. Pornography forces a radical reassessment of sexual value, nature’s bequest of our tarnished treasure.
Jean Sibelius (1865–1957) Finnish composer of the late Romantic period
Henry Thomas & Dana Lee Thomas Living Biographies of Great Composers (Garden City (NY): Blue Ribbon, [1940] 1946) p. 309.
Said in 1907, in conversation with Gustav Mahler.
Wassily Kandinsky (1866–1944) Russian painter
Quote in Kandinsky's letter to Arnold Schönberg, 18 Jan. 1911; as cited in Schonberg and Kandinsky: An Historic Encounter, by Klaus Kropfinger; edited by Konrad Boehmer; published by Routledge (imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informal company), 2003, p. 9
1910 - 1915
“Dissonance / (if you are interested) / leads to discovery.”
William Carlos Williams (1883–1963) American poet
“Humanity is not yet ready for either real truth or real harmony.”
Will Rogers (1879–1935) American humorist and entertainer
Nationally syndicated column number 31, A Few Shots of Scopolamin (15 July 1923), after meeting Robert E. House, who had proposed the use of scopolamine as a truth serum, in The Use of Scopolamine in Criminology (1922).
Weekly columns
Context: See they conducted experiments on convicts... I don't know on what grounds they reason a man in jail is a bigger liar than one out of jail... The chances are telling the truth is what got him there... It would be a big aid to humanity, but it will never be, for already the politicians are up in arms against it... It would wreck the very foundation on which our political government is run... If you ever injected truth into politics you'd have no politics … Even the ministers are denouncing it now … Humanity is not yet ready for either real truth or real harmony.
“Stand up and take your dissonance like a man.”
Charles Ives (1874–1954) American composer
Charles Ives' Rambunctious 'Fourth Of July', NPR Music http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=92196531 (July 3, 2008).
John Cage (1912–1992) American avant-garde composer
Quote of John Cage, in: 'The Future of Music: Credo' (1937); SILENCE; lectures and writings by Cage, John', Publisher Middletown, Conn. Wesleyan University Press, June 1961, CREDO/3
1930s
