Charles Ives Quotes and its meanings

What does Charles Ives write about?

Charles Ives has written on many topics but he is most famous for his work about experience, hope & music. People always share Experience quotes, Hope quotes, music from his literary works.

What are the top most famous quotes by Charles Ives?

Here are the top most famous quotes by Charles Ives.

• A rare experience of a moment at daybreak, when something in nature seems to reveal all consciousness, cannot be explained at noon. Yet it is part of the day's unity.
• There can be nothing exclusive about substantial art. It comes directly out of the heart of the experience of life and thinking about life and living life.
• But maybe music was not intended to satisfy the curious definiteness of man. Maybe it is better to hope that music may always be transcendental language in the most extravagant sense.
• You cannot set art off in a corner and hope for it to have vitality, reality, and substance.