Arguably, no artist grows up: If he sheds the perceptions of childhood, he ceases being an artist.
Ned Rorem

Art means to dare - and to have been right.
Ned Rorem

Divine fires do not blaze each day, but an artist functions in their afterglow hoping for their recurrence.
Ned Rorem

Humor is the ability to see three sides to one coin.
Ned Rorem

Inspiration could be called inhaling the memory of an act never experienced.
Ned Rorem

The hardest of all the arts to speak of is music, because music has no meaning to speak of.
Ned Rorem