Word: credos
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...quite simply made the practice of music more perfect than it had ever been before, or has been since. "You have only to hit the right notes at the right time and the instrument plays itself," Bach told his students of the organ, giving a rare expression to the credo of simplicity that makes his music now seem blindingly pure. Through his work there runs a thread of such subtlety and daring, such piety, passion and genius that the musical world stands before it-as Mendelssohn once did-in a "reverie of wonder." The final questions on the interpretation...
Those who huzzahed Goodman because he appeared to condone unrestricted promiscuity or sexual irresponsibility had, in their giggly enthusias, missed the core of his ethical credo. He considers himself "a highly moral man," and interpersonal responsibility, for him, precedes all other considerations...
...that Gottlieb, along with Mark Rothko, published the credo that has guided his work ever since. True reality for the artist, he said, lies not in perishable externals, but in the timeless images within himself. A well-painted picture is not necessarily a work of art because "there is no such thing as a good painting about nothing." Moreover, the proper subject matter for art comes from the world of imagination, which is "fancy-free and violently opposed to common sense." As Gottlieb added later: "If the models we use are the apparitions seen in a dream, or the recollection...
Although he studied with Martha Graham, the doyenne of modern dance in which story line is endemic, Taylor now leans toward the avantgarde, which argues that dance alone is the proper subject of dance. Its credo: the motion is the meaning. When Taylor takes a few liberties with this dogma, it makes for fine summery...
...with the Devil is about bohemians-Italian style. Their credo is: when in Rome, do as the Villagers do. But the painters and their girl friends who live in the Via Margutta are mentally a lot healthier than their MacDougal Street counterparts; they know their limitations. Says one: "In five years, not one of us has become a good painter...