What did Ned Rorem mean by: Intelligence is silence, truth is being invisible. But what a racket I make in declaring this. - Ned Rorem Composer · USA Copy
+ All men are forced into one of two categories: those with eleven fingers and those without. Feraz Zeid, December 28, 2023January 10, 2024, Ned Rorem, 0 - Ned Rorem Composer · USA
+ Humor is the ability to see three sides to one coin. Feraz Zeid, August 9, 2023December 12, 2023, Ned Rorem, Humor, 0 - Ned Rorem Composer · USA
+ Artists, by definition innocent, don’t steal. But they do borrow without giving back. Feraz Zeid, December 28, 2023January 10, 2024, Ned Rorem, Artist, Definitions, 0 - Ned Rorem Composer · USA
+ Minor artists borrow, great ones steal. Feraz Zeid, September 5, 2023December 26, 2023, Ned Rorem, Artist, Minors, Stealing, 0 - Ned Rorem Composer · USA
+ Anyone can be gay – it’s no accomplishment – but only I can be me. Feraz Zeid, December 28, 2023January 10, 2024, Ned Rorem, Accomplish, Gay, 0 - Ned Rorem Composer · USA
+ There are no fascinating people, only their works are fascinating. Feraz Zeid, December 28, 2023January 10, 2024, Ned Rorem, Fascinating, 0 - Ned Rorem Composer · USA
+ Art means to dare – and to have been right. Feraz Zeid, October 16, 2023December 26, 2023, Ned Rorem, Art, Dare, 0 - Ned Rorem Composer · USA
+ Music is the sole art which evokes nostalgia for the future. Feraz Zeid, September 10, 2023December 24, 2023, Ned Rorem, Art, Nostalgia, 0 - Ned Rorem Composer · USA
To express truth is to write naturally, forcibly, and delicately. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
It is a great misfortune neither to have enough wit to talk well nor enough judgment to be silent. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
The truth is ugly: we have art so as not to perish from the truth. Explain - Friedrich Nietzsche Philosopher · Germany
Universal silence is taken to imply the consent of the people. Explain - Jean-Jacques Rousseau Philosopher · Switzerland
Unhappy families are conspiracies of silence. The one who breaks the silence is never forgiven. - Jeanette Winterson Author · England
It is silence that most needs an answering — when I can no longer speak, hear me. - Jeanette Winterson Author · England