Cosmic Scholar Quotes

“These soundscape recordings were similar to those being made by Tony Schwartz, then the most important sound documentarian in the country. Harry knew his”
― John F. Szwed, Cosmic Scholar: The Life and Times of Harry Smith

“When Wassily Kandinsky’s 1926 book on non-objective painting, Point and Line to Plane, was translated into English in 1947, Harry was excited by the language it offered him for relating abstract art and jazz, and the way it tied painting to geometry and other subjects.”
― John F. Szwed, Cosmic Scholar: The Life and Times of Harry Smith