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How do you live with evil? Art is traditionally - certainly with my secular background - the answer, but art is very self-referential, whereas religio...more

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Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is colour that makes sense, so a story is life that makes sense.

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Henry had written a novel because there was a hole in him that needed filling, a question that needed answering, a patch of canvas that needed paintin...more

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If we, citizens, do not support our artists, then we sacrifice our imagination on the altar of crude reality and we end up believing in nothing and ha...more

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How does one say in the jargon of musicology that my sould was pulled out of me and thrown up in the air, to be tossed about by the music. How does on...more