What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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I remember being handed a score composed by Mozart at the age of eleven. What could I say I felt like de Kooning, who was asked to comment on a certain abstract painting, and answered in the negative. He was then told it was the work of a celebrated monkey. 'That's different. For a monkey, it's terrific.'
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I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.
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One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.
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I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
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