Divine fires do not blaze each day, but an artist functions in their afterglow hoping for their recurrence.
- Ned Rorem
Hoping, Recurrence, Fires
Arguably, no artist grows up: If he sheds the perceptions of childhood, he ceases being an artist.
- Ned Rorem
Childhood, Grows, Arguably, Perceptions
Inspiration could be called inhaling the memory of an act never experienced.
- Ned Rorem
Memory, Never, Act, Experienced
Art means to dare - and to have been right.
- Ned Rorem
Art, Been, Means, Dare
Humor is the ability to see three sides to one coin.
- Ned Rorem
Humor, See, Ability, Sides
The hardest of all the arts to speak of is music, because music has no meaning to speak of.
- Ned Rorem
Music, Speak, Meaning, Hardest
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