Ned Rorem

Arguably, no artist grows up: If he sheds the perceptions of childhood, he ceases being an artist.

Humor is the ability to see three sides to one coin.

The art of translation lies less in knowing the language than in knowing your own.

There are no fascinating people only their works are fascinating.

Art means to dare - and to have been right.

Divine fires do not blaze each day, but an artist functions in their afterglow hoping for their recurrence.

Sooner or later you've heard all your best friends have to say. Then comes the tolerance of real love.

The hardest of all the arts to speak of is music, because music has no meaning to speak of.

Inspiration could be called inhaling the memory of an act never experienced.

Classic means standard as opposed to Romantic form before meaning as opposed to meaning before form. It grows from inside out while Romantic grows from outside in.