Author: Charles Ives

Quotes

There can be nothing exclusive about substantial art. It comes directly out of the heart of the experience of life and thinking about life and living life.

There can be nothing exclusive about substantial art. It comes directly out of the heart of the experience of life and thinking about life and living life.

- Charles Ives

Vagueness is at times an indication of nearness to a perfect truth.

Vagueness is at times an indication of nearness to a perfect truth.

- Charles Ives

You cannot set art off in a corner and hope for it to have vitality, reality, and substance.

You cannot set art off in a corner and hope for it to have vitality, reality, and substance.

- Charles Ives

Expression, to a great extent, is a matter of terms, and terms are anyone's. The meaning of 'God' may have a billion interpretations if there be that many souls in the world.

Expression, to a great extent, is a matter of terms, and terms are anyone's. The meaning of 'God' may have a billion interpretations if there be that many souls in the world.

- Charles Ives

In 'thinking up' music I usually have some kind of a brass band with wings on it in back of my mind.

In 'thinking up' music I usually have some kind of a brass band with wings on it in back of my mind.

- Charles Ives

Every great inspiration is but an experiment - though every experiment we know, is not a great inspiration.

Every great inspiration is but an experiment - though every experiment we know, is not a great inspiration.

- Charles Ives

A rare experience of a moment at daybreak, when something in nature seems to reveal all consciousness, cannot be explained at noon. Yet it is part of the day's unity.

A rare experience of a moment at daybreak, when something in nature seems to reveal all consciousness, cannot be explained at noon. Yet it is part of the day's unity.

- Charles Ives

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