Ned Rorem Art Quotations

Art means to dare - and to have been right.

The hardest of all the arts to speak of is music, because music has no meaning to speak of

Perfection is no more a requisite to art than to heroes. Frigidaires are perfect. Beauty limps. My frigidaire has had to be replaced.

Perfection is no more a requisite to art than to heroes.

Music is the sole art which evokes nostalgia for the future.

Art's the biggest vanity: the assumption that one's view of peace or fright or beauty is permanently communicable.

The art of translation lies less in knowing the other language than in knowing your own.