Well I started conducting kind of by accident. I wanted to give myself a special birthday present for my fortieth birthday and I was living in San Francisco at the time and I started attending some of the concerts and then simply dropping hints.
I stood up as best I could to their disgusting stupidity and brutality but I did not of course manage to beat them at their own game. It was a fight to the bitter end one in which I was not defending ideals or beliefs but simply my own self.
Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship and it is the best ending for one.
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship and it is far the best ending for one.
Far from creating a new formalism what these can yield is something far transcending surface values since they not only embody form as beauty but also form in which intuitions or ideas or conjectures have taken visible substance.
It is conventional to call 'monster' any blending of dissonant elements. I call 'monster' every original inexhaustible beauty.
Maybe I'm old-fashioned. But I remember the beauty and thrill of being moved by Broadway musicals - particularly the endings of shows.
You can have a laugh in Los Angeles or you can weep in Los Angeles depending on your attitude towards it.
As the time goes by you change your learn new things your attitude is different. For the moment I'm still enjoying ski racing so much that it would be difficult for me to think about ending my career.
Nothing. We're all friends and friendly. So when the cameras go down depending on the mood or the nature of the material we're dealing with there's usually a kind of a prevailing light attitude that's floating around.
I have this theory that depending on your attitude your life doesn't have to become this ridiculous charade that it seems so many people end up living.
Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.
Writing is truly a creative art - putting word to a blank piece of paper and ending up with a full-fledged story rife with character and plot.
I don't know much about auctions. I sometimes go to previews and see art sardined into ugly rooms. I've gawked at the gaudy prices and gaped at well-clad crowds of happy white people conspicuously spending hundreds of millions of dollars.
Megacollectors suppose they can enter art history by spending astronomical amounts.
It was Public Art defined as art that is purchased by experts who are not spending their own personal money.
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows and of lending existence to nothing.