If Good approved of his creature's creation, He breathed the painted clay-model into life by signing His name.
I'm not actually teaching any more, but I am writing pieces for schools all the time, and for kids.
If you don't get feedback from your performers and your audience, you're going to be working in a vacuum.
I'm obviously very keen on the theater and I think it's inevitable that some of the orchestral and chamber pieces have got dramatic elements which might even suggest an unspecified dramatic plot of some kind or other, even though it's not in my mind at the time.
You can't pander to your audience. You might in the short term, but ultimately you can't hoodwink them, either.
The present government is very insistent that business sponsorship should replace government sponsorship of the arts. Business sponsorship won't happen unless you make tax concessions, which they won't.
The establishment in Britain is certainly against the arts and against education. If something doesn't make a profit, it's invalid, and art doesn't make a profit in that sense.
The past can teach us, nurture us, but it cannot sustain us. The essence of life is change, and we must move ever forward or the soul will wither and die.
Before Guadalcanal the enemy advanced at his pleasure - after Guadalcanal he retreated at ours.
"What did you do?" I scream. "You die, I die too. "
The magic, the wonder, the mystery and the innocence of a child’s heart are the seeds of creativity that will heal the world.