Quotes from Van Cliburn

An artist can only be evaluated after he's dead. At the 11th hour he might do something that will eclipse everything else.

The brick of my life is music, but the mortar is faith.

I'm not a success, I'm a sensation.

Music is like painting in sound. You take it into your inner heart and never lose it. It's eternally mysterious.

An artist can be truly evaluated only after he is dead. At the very 11th hour, he might do something that will eclipse everything else.

The Steinway piano - with its beauty and power - is the perfect medium for expressing the performer's art, drama and poetry.