“its helpful to step back and see the bigger picture”
“A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.”
“Between nine and ten, at last, in the high clear picture--he was moving in these days, as in a gallery, from clever canvas to clever canvas--he drew a long breath: it was so presented to him from the first that the spell of his luxury wouldn't be broken.”
“cease to regard the canvas as a surface on which to paint a picture, but instead as a surface on which to record an event”
“Reading is an act of resistance in a landscape of distraction.... We regain the world by withdrawing from it just a little by stepping back from the noise.”