Sometimes it is the artist's task to find out how much music you can still make with what you have left.
Interpretation
An artist must explore their creativity and capacity, even in challenging situations.
This quote emphasizes the resilience of artists and the idea that creativity can persist despite limitations. It suggests that even when resources are scarce or circumstances are difficult, an artist's task is to discover new ways to express themselves and create meaningful work.
In practice
This quote can inspire students in an art class to create with the materials they have.
I say to string players in small chamber orchestras, 'it's always easy to become a passenger on the journey in sound, just adding volume to the whole. But if you play in an individual way, it makes the difference between good and great sound in an orchestra.'
In difficult times, people just like to hear music. They like to be moved by what they hear. And music speaks different languages.
For every child prodigy that you know about, at least 50 potential ones have burned out before you even heard about them.
Whenever I play recitals, the part where I talk about music and my experiences of music, audiences always like it. They feel more involved with an artist who talks to them. It's a nice experience for me as well.
I am playing the violin, that's all I know, nothing else, no education, no nothing. You just practice every day.
Israel is the country of my birth. When I come here, I feel I'm coming home.
And little he knew of the things that ink may do, how it can mark a dead man's thought for the wonder of later years, and tell of happening that are gone clean away, and be a voice for us out of the dark of time, and save many a fragile thing from the pounding of heavy ages; or carry to us, over the rolling centuries, even a song from lips long dead on forgotten hills.
The Chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a visual design on the chessboard, express their beauty abstractly, like a poem
When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, 'no, I went to films.'
A work of art doesn't have to be explained. If you do not have any feeling about this, I cannot explain it to you. If this doesn't touch you, I have failed.
You're only reduced to a cliche if you don't humanize a character.
Poetry must be human. If it is not human, it is not poetry.
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