“I think music is an instrument. It can create the initial thought patterns that can change the thinking of the people.” — John Coltrane, 1966 Interview with Frank Kofsky for KPFK Radio

"Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the fundamental laws of the State always change with them." — Plato, The Republic

"Color deceives continually...in visual perception there is a discrepancy between physical fact and psychic effect. What counts here — first and last — is not so-called knowledge of so-called facts, but vision — seeing." — Josef Albers, introduction to Interaction of Color

"The theory of relativity occurred to me by intuition, and music is the driving force behind this intuition. My parents had me study the violin from the time I was six. My new discovery is the result of musical perception." — Albert Einstein in Shinishi Suzuki's 1969 Nurtured by Love: A New Approach to Education

"Begin anywhere." — John Cage

ALYCE SANTORO

ALYCE SANTORO