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I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music.

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The plate that a peasant eats his soup out of is much more interesting to me than the ridiculously rich plates of rich people.

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Your face had become dark, and, upon the day's awakening, your ashes will disperse themselves throughout the garden.

Painting must be fertile. It must give birth to a world.. ..it must fertilize the imagination.

To gain freedom is to gain simplicity.

In the current struggle I see the antiquated forces of fascism on one side, and on the other, those of the people, whose immense creative resources will give Spain a drive that will amaze the world.

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The emphasis of study upon a particular aspect of music is in itself ideological because it contains implications about the music's value.

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Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

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Music has no subject beyond the combinations of notes we hear, for music speaks not only by means of sounds, it speaks nothing but sound.

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Above the pitch, out of tune, and off the hinges.

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