Pay attention to the things that bring a tear to your eye or a lump in your throat because they are signs that the holy is drawing near.
I was for years in the yellow period, you know.
Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.
Every perception of color is an illusion, we do not see colors as they really are. In our perception they alter one another.
Art is revelation instead of information, expression instead of description, creation instead of imitation or repetition. Art is concerned with the HOW, not the WHAT; not with literal content, but with the performance of the factual content. The performance - how it is done - that is the content of art.
If one says 'Red' – the name of color – and there are fifty people listening, it can be expected that there will be fifty reds in their minds. And one can be sure that all these reds will be very different.
Easy-to know that diamonds-are precious, Good-to learn that rubies-have depth, But more-to see that pebbles-are miraculous.
The soprano has all those other instruments in it. It's got the soprano song voice, flute, violin, clarinet, and tenor elements and can even approach the baritone in intensity.
Did you come of age in those sweet summers of the early nineteen-sixties, when the airwaves were full of rock and roll's doo-wop promise of joy and the nation was full of J. F. K. 's eloquent promise of a New Frontier? I did. Life seemed to be laid out before us like a banquet; everything was for the taking, especially hearts.
It sounded like a very loud vacuum cleaner behind us.
The problem is not one of prediction. It is one of imagination.