Iain McGilchrist Quotes

More and more, I think about the role of the arts, and as an artist, I think that it's important that I share the love and peace.

Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.

Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual arts have been in slow decline for nearly 40 years. No major figure of profound influence has emerged in painting or sculpture since the waning of Pop Art and the birth of Minimalism in the early 1970s.

I think music changes and it evolves.

The clarification of equilibrium through plastic art is of great importance for humanity. It reveals that although human life in time is doomed to disequilibrium, notwithstanding this, it is based on equilibrium. It demonstrates that equilibrium can become more and more living in us.

From 1940 to the present, the art world - and particularly Los Angeles - has undergone a transformation not unlike the Italian Renaissance.

Beethoven's music tends to move from chaos to order, as if order were an imperative of human existence.

People won't stop painting, just as they won't stop making music or dancing. This is a facility we have. Children don't stop doing it or having it. On the other hand, it seems we don't need painting anymore. Culture is more interested in entertaining people.

Enough of Art. It's Art that kills us. People no longer want to do painting: they make art.

Is photography an art? There is no point in trying to find out if it is an art. Art is old-fashioned. We need something else.

Dancing can reveal all the mystery that music conceals.

There is a difference these days between who's making the music and buying the music, in terms of the way that they think, grew up, and their perspective. It's become much more diverse.

The new painters do not propose, any more than did their predecessors, to be geometers. But it may be said that geometry is to the plastic arts what grammar is to the art of the writer. Today, scholars no longer limit themselves to the three dimensions of Euclid. The painters have been lead quite naturally, one might say by intuition, to preoccupy themselves with the new possibilities of spatial measurement which, in the language of the modern studios, are designated by the term fourth dimension.

If you can see things out of whack, then you can see how things can be in whack.

If you disaggregate, things fall apart.

I like any and all of my associations with music: writing, playing, and listening. We write and play from our perspective, and the audience listens from its perspective. If and when we agree, I am lucky.

CSNY is a little like putting seven pounds of stuff in a three pound bag.

I make collages. I join the shattered world creating a new harmony.

Whenever new ideas emerge, songs soon follow, and before long the songs are leading.

Music seems to hold everything together. It seems to make things not so chaotic sometimes. It seems to make things make more sense sometimes.

The composer makes plans, music laughs.

There is always more surface to a shattered object than a whole.

I would like to explode, flow, crumble into dust, and my disintegration would be my masterpiece.

We are attacked by radio and television and visual communication at such speed and with such force that painting seems very old fashioned ...why shouldn't it be done with that power and gusto [of advertising], with that impact.

Art used to be painting, sculpture, music, etc, but now, all technology has become art. Of course, this form of art is still very primitive, but it is slowly replacing reality.