“I was horrified by modern 12-tone music. I said to myself, 'Maybe I can find something different… maybe salvation, liberation, is possible.”
Pierre Schaeffer: an Interview with the Pioneer of Musique Concrete (Records Quarterly magazine, vol. 2, n° 1; 1987)
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Brunello Cucinelli (1953) Italian entrepreneur and philanthropist
Source: THE VALUE OF HUMAN DIGNITY: Brunello Cucinelli’s Vision for a Better World https://gearpatrol.com/2018/12/20/brunello-cucinelli-interview/ John Zientek, Gear Patrol, December 20, 2018
Willem de Kooning (1904–1997) Dutch painter
In an interview (March 1960) with David Sylvester, edited for broadcasting by the BBC first published in 'Location', Spring 1963; as quoted in Interviews with American Artists, by David Sylvester; Chatto & Windus, London 2001, p. 54
1960's
Julie Taymor (1952) American film and theatre director
Bill Moyers interview (2002)
Context: I understood really the power of art to transform. I think transformation became the main word in my life.
Transformation because you don't want to just put a mirror in front of people and say, here, look at yourself. What do you see? You want to have a skewed mirror. You want a mirror that says you didn't know you could see the back of your head. You didn't know that you could amount cubistic see almost all the same aspects at the same time. It allows human beings to step out of their lives and to revisit it and maybe find something different about it.
“Tell me anyway--Maybe I can find the truth by comparing the lies.”
Leon Trotsky (1879–1940) Marxist revolutionary from Russia
Jonathan Safran Foer book Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
“Maybe there is something I got from it. Maybe you also start to be clear on certain things.”
Ai Weiwei (1957) Chinese concept artist
2010-, Ai Weiwei: 'Every day I think, this will be the day I get taken in again...', 2011