Isao Tomita quotes

Isao Tomita quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Art is art when it is appreciated by someone.”
-- Isao Tomita

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“I began seriously concentrating on music study after I entered senior high school. I went to a class in the arts section at the YMCA and learned music theory and composition. Today, there are many classes like this available, but this was not so much the case in those days.”
-- Isao Tomita

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“Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.”

Source : A. Bartlett Giamatti (1981). “The University and the Public Interest”, Atheneum Books
“Poems very seldom consist of poetry and nothing else; and pleasure can be derived also from their other ingredients. I am convinced that most readers, when they think they are admiring poetry, are deceived by inability to analyse their sensations, and that they are really admiring, not the poetry of the passage before them, but something else in it, which they like better than poetry.”
“Art, however innocent, looks like deceiving.”
“We look at the world and see what we have learned to believe is there. We have been conditioned to expect... but, as photographers, we must learn to relax our beliefs.”
“The most powerful force in a woman's life is the need to be appreciated, loved and cherished for what she is.”

Source : Amish Tripathi (2012). “The Immortals of Meluha: The Shiva Trilogy”, p.100, Hachette UK
“I've learned that under everyone's hard shell is someone who wants to be appreciated and loved.”
“There is anguish in the recollection that we have not adequately appreciated the affection of those whom we have loved and lost.”
“John Cage made you realise that there wasn't a thing called noise, it was just music you hadn't appreciated.”
“Art is in love with luck, and luck with art.”
“The purpose of truly transcendent art is to express something you are not yet, but something that you can become.”

Source : Alex Grey (2017). “The Mission of Art”, p.10, Shambhala Publications

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