I don't want to write any more for the old Man-power instruments and am handicapped by the lack of adequate electrical instruments for which I now conceive my music.

Quote by Edgard Varese

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Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes.

Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes.

I was not influenced by composers as much as by natural objects and physical phenomena.

I was not influenced by composers as much as by natural objects and physical phenomena.

I have just begun a work in which an important part is given to a...

I have just begun a work in which an important part is given to a...

Music is organized sound.

Music is organized sound.

Our musical alphabet is poor and illogical.

Our musical alphabet is poor and illogical.

Music, which should pulsate with life, needs new means of expression, and science alone can...

Music, which should pulsate with life, needs new means of expression, and science alone can...

I dream of instruments obedient to my thought and which with their contribution of a...

I dream of instruments obedient to my thought and which with their contribution of a...

There is an idea, the basis of an internal structure, expanded and split into different...

There is an idea, the basis of an internal structure, expanded and split into different...

An artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs.

An artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs.

A poet is a bird of unearthly excellence, who escapes from his celestial realm arrives...

A poet is a bird of unearthly excellence, who escapes from his celestial realm arrives...

I suggest that what we want to do is not to leave to posterity a...

I suggest that what we want to do is not to leave to posterity a...

Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.

Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.

Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.

I think an artist's responsibility is more complex than people realize.

I think an artist's responsibility is more complex than people realize.

Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.

Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.

I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.

I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.

If creating life is art, then living and dying must be poetry.

If creating life is art, then living and dying must be poetry.

Leadership: The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he...

Leadership: The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he...

Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it...

Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it...