“When discussing Bach’s six Brandenburg concertos, the artistically aware person usually states, among other things, that when these masterpieces were composed, the stars were dancing in heavens. God and his dwelling place are always involved whenever these people talk about Bach.”
“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