https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Tue, 04 Aug 2026 22:26:31 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 https://wist.info/barenboim-daniel/41732/ https://wist.info/barenboim-daniel/41732/#respond Thu, 14 May 2020 23:01:30 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=41732 Every great work of art has two faces: one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.

Daniel Barenboim (b. 1942) Argentine-Israeli pianist and conductor
Quoted in the International Herald Tribune (20 Jan 1989)

The above is sometimes cited to his collaborative dialog with Edward Said, Parallels and Paradoxes (2002), but the passage there is slightly different: "I think that every great work of art has two faces: one toward its own time and one toward eternity." ]]> https://wist.info/barenboim-daniel/41732/feed/ 0 41732