“To Bach, notes were not just sounds but the very stuff of creation.”
Leonard Bernstein, "Leonard Bernstein discusses material & structure in Bach's St. Matthew Passion," Bernstein Century - Bach: St. Matthew Passion / Nypo, Et Al (1999) (at 6:31)
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Of playing the harpsichord.
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The Act of Creation, London, (1970) p. 253.
Context: Einstein's space is no closer to reality than Van Gogh's sky. The glory of science is not in a truth more absolute than the truth of Bach or Tolstoy, but in the act of creation itself. The scientist's discoveries impose his own order on chaos, as the composer or painter imposes his; an order that always refers to limited aspects of reality, and is based on the observer's frame of reference, which differs from period to period as a Rembrant nude differs from a nude by Manet.

Friends, Lovers, Chocolate, chapter 3.
The Sunday Philosophy Club series

Describing the Holocaust, "Migratory Patterns of Predatory Immigrants" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2RVIi6M7oM, YouTube (March 20, 2016), @4:45

“Somewhere at the heart
of the universe sounds the
true mystic note: Me.”
"Japanese Jokes", p. 63.
The Last of England (1970)

“.. colors are my notes for fashioning sounds and chords with and against one another.”
as quoted in Expressionism, a German intuition, 1905-1920, Neugroschel, Joachim; Vogt, Paul; Keller, Horst; Urban, Martin; Dube, Wolf Dieter; (transl. Joachim Neugroschel); publisher: Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York, 1980, p. 35
3 short quotes in which Nolde expresses the evocative power of color, which became with his garden and flower paintings from 1906-07 the chief medium of his art.
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