I have always kept one end in view, namely… to conduct a well-regulated church music to the honor of God.
On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explanation.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.
People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.
There is nothing insignificant in the world. It all depends on the point of view.
In fact men will fight for a superstition quite as quickly as for a living truth - often more so, since a superstition is so intangible you cannot get at it to refute it, but truth is a point of view, and so is changeable.
Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
Darwin was not afraid to look deeply into the void. His bold view can be seen as either noble and pessimistic or noble and admirable. For people of science, he is a hero. Denying man a privileged place in creation, .. he reaffirms with his own intellectual courage the dignity of man.
Every great work of art should be considered like any work of nature. First of all from the point of view of its aesthetic reality and then not just from its development and the mastery of its creation but from the standpoint of what has moved and agitated its creator.
Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was.
In my view, the composer, just as the poet, the sculptor or the painter, is in duty bound to serve Man, the people. He must beautify life and defend it. He must be a citizen first and foremost, so that his art might consciously extol human life and lead man to a radiant future.
People's personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.
Only the misfortune of exile can provide the in-depth understanding and the overview into the realities of the world.