“We should always remember that sensitiveness and emotion constitute th...” — Maurice Ravel Quote

“We should always remember that sensitiveness and emotion constitute the real content of a work of art.”

“You might lose your spontaneity and, instead of composing first-rate Gershwin, end up with second rate Ravel.”

“I am not one of the great composers. All the great have produced enormously. There is everything in their work - the best and the worst, but there is always quantity. But I have written relatively little.”

“Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.”

“Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.”

“For Christmas our grandmother would give us this huge box every year of just art supplies, construction paper, water colors, charcoals, crayons, color pencils.”