“To make something beautiful is revolutionary (not low class, not easy, not a sign of low intelligence).”
Opening-sentence
Beauty is Revolution (1980)
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American neo-romantic composer 1950Related quotes
William Black talking with Oskar
"A Simple Solution to an Impossible Problem" (p. 297)
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005)
Context: "It's easy to be emotional. You can always make a scene... Highs and lows make you feel that things matter, but they're nothing." "So what's something?" "Being reliable is something. Being good."
"Lord Bacon", (1837) in Essays 2:183
Attributed
The Transmutation of Ling
The Wallet of Kai Lung (1900)
“Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.”
“The glories, trumpets, palms… and low reliefs,… all that makes a monument.”
Les gloires, les trompettes, les palmes... et les bas-reliefs,... tout cela fait un monument.
Picasso (1952). Quoted in: Michael D. Garval (2004), "A Dream of Stone": Fame, Vision, and Monumentality in Nineteenth-century French Literary Culture. p. 226.
Picasso commented on the matter of the monument destruction in Paris.
Quotes, 1950's
“The worst thing about jealousy is how low it makes you reach.”
How to Save Your Own Life (1977)
