The Century Of Aeroplanes Deserves Its Own

Art Is The Most Beautiful Deception Of All! And Although People Try To Incorporate The Everyday Events Of Life In It, We Must Hope That It Will Remain A Deception Lest It Become A Utilitarian Thing, Sad As A Factory.

I Wish To Sing Of My Interior Visions With The Naive Candour Of A Child.

What I Am Trying To Do Is Something Different - An Effect Of Reality, But What Some Fools Call Impressionism, A Term That Is Usually Misapplied, Especially By The Critics Who Don't Hesitate To Apply It To Turner, The Greatest Creator Of Mysterious Effects In The Whole World Of Art.

When Claude Debussy Studied At The Paris Conservatory From Age Ten To Age Twenty-two, Many Considered Him A Rebel Because Of His Treatment Of Dissonance And His Disdain For The Established Forms. He Reputedly Turned To A Fellow Student During A Performance Of Beethoven With The Words, "let's Go. He's Starting To Develop.

There Is No Theory. You Have Only To Listen. Pleasure Is The Law. I Love Music Passionately. And Because L Love It, I Try To Free It From Barren Traditions That Stifle It. It Is A Free Art Gushing Forth, An Open-air Art Boundless As The Elements, The Wind, The Sky, The Sea. It Must Never Be Shut In And Become An Academic Art.