Artists can be compared to ship: They take the sea, wide, landless, blusterous and always new for miles and miles. But others stay on the anchor in the silent harbor, far from storm and danger.

… "I work on music for long time. It could be possible to have comfortable life. But art ends where comfort is. In order not to stay in place, you need to be "changed" from "yourself". As V.Shklovskiy said: "I want to be changed, because I'm tired of going up."
"Literature matters", 19677. # 11

"Metre changed notion about time. If past life of the artist accorded with one period in the history of art progress, let us say, romantism or classicism, now each of us cross some passages in ascension time. Dwelling is dangerous…"
"Horizon", 1967, #10.