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.
I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service.'
Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice.
I believe that architecture is fundamentally a public space where people can gather and communicate, think about the history, think about the lives of human beings, or the world.
Composing is improvisation slowed down.
In a way, writing is an incredible act of individualism, producing your language, and yet to use it from the heart of a crowd as opposed to as an individual performance is a conflicting thing. I do stand alone, and yet it's not about being an individual or being ambitious.
When the audience comes in, it changes the temperature of what you've written.
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