Comments on: the only reason to write is for love https://sookewriters.com/the-only-reason-to-write-is-for-love/ for writers in the Sooke area > writing support & practice Fri, 26 Sep 2014 20:07:53 +0000 hourly 1 By: Angela https://sookewriters.com/the-only-reason-to-write-is-for-love/#comment-21 Fri, 26 Sep 2014 20:07:53 +0000 http://sookewriters.com/?p=256#comment-21 The article really touched me, not only the above, but this passage as well:

Another highlight for Sondheim was writing the anthem “Sunday” for the 1984 musical “Sunday in Park with George,” about the French pointillist painter Georges Seurat. “Sunday” was written from the perspective of the people in Seurat’s painting “A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte.”

“These people don’t know they’re going to be immortal,” Sondheim said. “In ‘Sunday,’ they’re acknowledging that. When I wrote that, I cried. That’s how I feel about art — there’s no beginning and no end.”

So beautifully said.

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