Top 4 Ned Rorem Quotes

Art means to dare — and to have been right.

Art's the biggest vanity: the assumption that one's view of peace or fright or beauty is permanently communicable.

The same piece of music alters at each hearing. But oh, the need to repeat and repeat and repeat unchanged the sexual experience.

The beautiful are shyer than the ugly, for they move in a world that does not ask for beauty.