Quote by Charles Ives
You cannot set art off in a corner and hope for it to have vitalit

You cannot set art off in a corner and hope for it to have vitality, reality, and substance. – Charles Ives

Other quotes by Charles Ives

But maybe music was not intended to satisfy the curious definiteness of man. Maybe it is better to hope that music may always be transcendental language in the most extravagant sense. – Charles Ives

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Hope
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There can be nothing exclusive about substantial art. It comes directly out of the heart of the experience of life and thinking about life and living life. – Charles Ives

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Experience
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A song has a few rights the same as ordinary citizens… if it happens to feel like flying where humans cannot fly… to scale mountains that are not there, who shall stop it? – Charles Ives

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I wish you a tolerable Thursday. Thats all any of us can hope for. – April Winchell

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I hope SeaWorld is exploring how, like Ringling, it can get out of the wild animal business. – Ingrid Newkirk

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There will always be someone else with a different view than you. I appreciate them and would never say that they are wrong. I hope that they would give me that courtesy also. – Melissa Etheridge

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Right now Im not involved with anybody, but I hope by 75 I will be again. – Stevie Nicks

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