“Beethoven’s sonatas, whether show so much variety that one has to ask oneself the fundamental question of what the much vilified word ‘sonata means. Perhaps Beethoven applied the word to entities that are not even sonatas in the strict sense of the term. One has to perceive new law in the highly dramatic musical form. Often in the sonata, feeling eludes form. In Beethoven, that is not the case, for here the two go hand in hand; feeling makes form aware of a hole in the ground and vice versa.”
“For the first thing a proprietor learns, and painfully at that, is: Trust is fine, but control is better.”
Elfriede Jelinek
“Sometimes, of course, art creates the suffering in the first place.”
Elfriede Jelinek
“Every child instinctively heads toward dirt and filth unless you pull it back.”
Elfriede Jelinek
“The artist is lonesome and admits his solitude.”
Elfriede Jelinek
“Of course, art turns many people away for there has to be a limit. The limits between the gifted and the ungifted.”
Elfriede Jelinek