How often have I actually discovered in myself that enthusiasm raises the artist above himself, how in an ordinary mood one would not have been able to accomplish many of the things for which enthusiasm lends one everything, energy, fire. — Clara Schumann Copy Share Image
If I have known much trouble in my youth, I have also known much joy. — Clara Schumann Copy Share Image
I will yield to popular demands only insofar as they do not betray my own convictions. — Clara Schumann Copy Share Image
My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art. — Clara Schumann Copy Share Image
I once believed that I possessed creative talent, but I have given up this idea; a woman must not desire to compose — there… — Clara Schumann Copy Share Image
The tea is ice-cold, the room grows colder and colder, but I grow warmer and warmer. — Clara Schumann Copy Share Image
How often have I actually discovered in myself that enthusiasm raises the artist above himself, how in an ordinary mood one would not have… — Clara Schumann Copy Share Image
There is nothing greater than the joy of composing something oneself and then listening to it. — Clara Schumann Copy Share Image
My health may be better preserved if I exert myself less, but in the end doesn't each person give his life for his calling? — Clara Schumann Copy Share Image
I cannot give a single concert at which I do not play one piece after the other in an agony of terror because my… — Clara Schumann Copy Share Image
