Edgard Varese
Edgard Varese
Edgard Victor Achille Charles Varèsewas a French-born composer who spent the greater part of his career in the United States...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionComposer
Date of Birth22 December 1883
CountryUnited States of America
ahead art artist behind far people time
An artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs.
musical alphabet poor
Our musical alphabet is poor and illogical.
important use want
I have just begun a work in which an important part is given to a large chorus and with it I want to use several of your instruments - augmenting their range as in those I used for my Equatorial - especially in the high range.
music dream mean
Our musical alphabet is poor and illogical. Music, which should pulsate with life, needs new means of expression, and science alone can infuse it with youthful vigor. Why, Italian Futurists, have you slavishly reproduced only what is commonplace and boring in the bustle of our daily lives. I dream of instruments obedient to my thought and which with their contribution of a whole new world of unsuspected sounds, will lend themselves to the exigencies of my inner rhythm.
mean science expression
Music, which should pulsate with life, needs new means of expression, and science alone can infuse it with youthful vigor.
two stupidity infinity
There are two infinities: God and stupidity.
art stars wine
Music is the most abstract of the arts and also the most physical....music is under two signs, the stars and the wine
art people gossip
A work of art must make the rules: rules do not make a work of art...I tell people I am not a musician; I work with rhythms, frequencies and intensities...tunes are merely the gossips of music...
art age needs
In every domain of art, a work that corresponds to the need of its day carries a message of social and cultural value. It is the artist who crystallizes his age ... who fixes his time in history.
art discrepancies-between progress
No matter how consummate a work of art may seem, it is only an approximation of the original conception. It is the artist's consciousness of this discrepancy between his conception and the realization that assures his progress.
art understanding treasure
The beginning of art is not reason. It is the buried treasure of the unconscious...that unconscious which has more understanding than our lucidity.
men goal complacency
Men set themselves a goal, and having attained it, are satisfied and grow paunches. In their complacency they forget that their only future is now death.
sound music-is organized
Music is organized sound.
dream world sound
I dream of instruments obedient to my thought and which with their contribution of a whole new world of unsuspected sounds, will lend themselves to the exigencies of my inner rhythm.