Stephen Sondheim Quotes About Art
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Puzzles are like songs - A good puzzle can give you all the pleasure of being duped that a mystery story can. It has surface innocence, surprise, the revelation of a concealed meaning, and the catharsis of solution.
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Making lyrics feel natural, sit on music in such a way that you dont feel the effort of the author, so that they shine and bubble and rise and fall, is very, very hard to do. Whereas you can sit at the piano and just play and feel youre making art.
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Art is craft, not inspiration.
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Work is what you do for others, liebchen. Art is what you do for yourself.
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The art of making art, is putting it together.
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Bit by bit, putting it together... Piece by piece, only way to make a work of art. Every moment makes a contribution, Every little detail plays a part. Having just the vision's no solution, Everything depends on execution, Putting it together, that's what counts.
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Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.
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Teaching is a sacred profession. And art is a form of teaching.
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