Kevin Bazzana: Wondrous Strange: The Life and Art of Glenn Gould

If an artist wants to use his mind for creative work, cutting oneself off from society is a necessary thing...

My moods are inversely related to the clarity of the sky...

I detest audiences - not in their individual components, but en masse I detest audiences. I think they're a force of evil. It seems to me rule of mob law.

I believe that the justification of art is the internal combustion it ignites in the hearts of men and not its shallow, externalized, public manifestations. The purpose of art is not the release of a momentary ejection of adrenaline but is, rather, the gradual, lifelong construction of a state of wonder and serenity.

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