Leonard Bernstein Quote

A work of art does not answer questions: it provokes them; and its essential meaning is in the tension between their contradictory answers.


Findings (1982)


A work of art does not answer questions: it provokes them; and its essential meaning is in the tension between their contradictory answers.

A work of art does not answer questions: it provokes them; and its essential meaning is in the tension between their contradictory answers.

A work of art does not answer questions: it provokes them; and its essential meaning is in the tension between their contradictory answers.

A work of art does not answer questions: it provokes them; and its essential meaning is in the tension between their contradictory answers.