Composing gives me great pleasure... there is nothing that surpasses the joy of creation, if only because through it one wins hours of self-forgetfulness, when one lives in a world of sound. — 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
