“The greater the emotional intensity, the greater the simplicity.”
Alan Hovhaness (1911–2000) Armenian-American composer
Alan Hovhaness program notes to “Avak The Healer” (1946).
“It is not the "greatness," the intensity, of the emotions, the components, but the intensity of the artistic process, the pressure, so to speak, under which the fusion takes place, that counts.”
Tradition and the Individual Talent (1919)
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