There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
T. S. EliotRead
The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.
Interpretation
An artist must continuously give up parts of themselves to grow and create.
This quote by T. S. Eliot emphasizes the idea that an artist's journey requires a constant process of sacrifice. To create meaningful art, one often has to let go of personal ego and identity, allowing their work to flourish independently of their personality. This self-extinction is not a loss, but rather a transformation that enriches the artist's output and fosters genuine expression.
In practice
In an art workshop, discussing how personal experiences shape artistic expression.
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.
I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.
If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
For I have known them all already, known them allβ Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.
In the faint moonlight, the grass is singing
I always knew that if I was ever going to perform something that I wrote in front of an audience, I was going to do the thing I most like to experience as an audience member, which is to be tricked.
My experience with casting children is that... the whole movie is going to rest on their shoulders, so you have to set aside time and wait for the perfect people to appear.
There is a deep question whether the possible meanings that emerge from an effort to explain the experience of art may not mask the real meanings of a work of art.
A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.
Favorite poems are like favorite children. We definitely have them but we never tell as the others would have their feelings hurt.
All art speaks in signs and symbols. No one can explain how it happens that the artist can waken to life in us the existence that he has seen and lives through. No artistic speech is the adequate expression of what it represents; its vital force comes from what is unspoken in it.
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