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"mystery exists only in precise things."

Jean Cocteau

London Aug 27. 74

It is the individual that matters never the mass... the mass adds nothing to art. It cannot raise the level, and the artist who aims consciously at mass-appeal can do so only by lowering his own level. The soul of each individual who listens to my music is important to me, not the mass feeling of a group. Music cannot be helped by means of an increase of the quantity of listeners, be this increase effected by the films or any other medium. It can be helped only through an increase in the quality of listening the quality of the individual...

Stravinsky in a letter 1941

The man who has the sense of his age is exposed to its follies as well as sensitive to its invention.

T.S. Eliot

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Delayed gratification is the secret of all the performing arts.

People whose desire is solely for self realization never knows were they are going. - Shelly

Sept. 2. 74

Delight in Disorder (1648) - Robert Herrich

A sweet disorder in the dresse Kindles in cloathes a wantonesse: A lawn about the shoulders thrown Into a fine distraction: An erring lace, which here and there Enthralls the crimson stomaches: A Cuffe neglectful and thereby Ribbands to flow confusedly: A winning wave (deserving note) In the tempestuous petticote: A careless shooe-string, in whose tye I see a wild civility Doe more bewitch me, then when Art Is too recise in every part

Sept 6 74