Io non posso ammettere, né nei cantanti, né nei direttori la facoltà di creare, che come dissi prima, è un principio che conduce all'abisso.
Letter to Giulio Ricordi, April 11, 1871, cited from Franco Abbiati Giuseppe Verdi (Milano: Ricordi, 1959) vol. 3, p. 448; translation from Franz Werfel and Paul Stefan (eds.), Edward Downes (trans.) Verdi: The Man in His Letters (New York: L. B. Fischer, 1942) pp. 301-2.
Io non posso ammettere, né nei cantanti, né nei direttori la facoltà di creare, che come dissi prima, è un principio che conduce all'abisso.
Source: Da una lettera a Giulio Ricordi, 11 aprile 1871; citato in Marcello Conati, Verdi: interviste e incontri, EDT srl, 2000, p. 328 https://books.google.it/books?id=kb9gk11MAAIC&pg=PA328. ISBN 8870634906
December 2006 http://www.rockmymonkey.com/interviews/06/12/SebastianBach.php
As quoted in Women's Words : The Columbia Book of Quotations by Women (1996) by Mary Biggs, p. 2
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/issues/issue_150/4915-Where-Things-are-Hollow
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Spacetime Tsunami http://www.deoxy.org/t_sunami.htm, Interview with Carla Sinclair, bOING bOING #10.
Variant: I think people have a very narrow conception of what is possible with reality, that we're surrounded by the howling abyss of the unknowable and nobody knows what's out there.
Context: I think that people don't understand. As the Firesign Theater used to say, 'Everything you know is wrong.' But that is a very liberating understanding, because if everything you know is wrong, then all the problems you thought were insoluble can be framed differently. And there's a way to take the world apart and put it back unrecognizably. We don't really understand what consciousness is at the really deep levels. With some of the tryptamine hallucinogens, you see into possibilities where questions like, 'are you alive?' 'are you dead?' 'are you you?' seem to have been transcended. I think people have a very narrow conception of what is possible with reality, that we're surrounded by the howling abyss of the unknowable and nobody knows what's out there.
“I can always be distracted by love, but eventually I get horny for my creativity.”
Source: "English and the Discipline of Ideas" (1920), p. 66
Vetulani.nl (The website of Tomasz Vetulani) https://web.archive.org/web/20220505122011/https://www.vetulani.nl/sculptures, archived from the original https://www.vetulani.nl/sculptures (accessed on May 5th, 2022)
“To smoke or not to smoke: I can make of either a life work.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
2005
http://www.byrnerobotics.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=18193
On taking comics back to the basics; ‘rewinding’ or ‘resetting’ to the status quo
