Michael Tippett

“I'm a man who believes in the power of the irrational.”

“Art is a gesture of the spirit.”

“My business is to create.”

“I believe that the creative artist is a person of his time, and that his work must reflect the time in which he lives.”

“We are all part of a larger whole.”

“The real problem is in the hearts of men.”

“I would like to be a child of our time, a man of our time.”

“All things fall and are built again, And those that build them again are gay.”

“The composer's first responsibility is to be himself.”

“The moment of vision is the moment of creation.”

“If I were to begin life again, I would devote it to music. It is the only cheap and unpunished rapture on earth.”

“The price of a work of art can be irrationally high or low. The value of a work of art is always priceless.”