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Ned Rorem
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“The beautiful are shyer than the ugly, for they move in a world that does not ask for beauty.”
Ned Rorem (1923–2022) said by 2022 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The same piece of music alters at each hearing. But oh, the need to repeat and repeat and repeat unchanged the sexual experience.”
Ned Rorem (1923–2022) said by 2022 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Art's the biggest vanity: the assumption that one's view of peace or fright or beauty is permanently communicable.”
Ned Rorem (1923–2022) first seen 1980 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Being Alone, The Ontario Review (Spring/Summer 1980)
“Art means to dare — and to have been right.”
Ned Rorem (1923–2022) first seen 1980 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: W magazine (10 October 1980).