Art is the opposite of chaos. Art is organized chaos.

It is the transcendent (or 'abstract' or 'self-contained') nature of music that the new so called concretism--Pop Art, eighteen-hour slices-of-reality films, musique concrete--opposes. But instead of bringing art and reality closer together, the new movement merely thins out the distinction.

I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.

I wonder if memory is true, and I know that it cannot be, but that one lives by memory nevertheless and not by truth.

In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?

An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.

Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.