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 will yield to popular demands only insofar as they do not betray my own convictions. — Clara Schumann Copy Share
My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art. — Clara Schumann Copy Share
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
The tea is ice-cold, the room grows colder and colder, but I grow warmer and warmer. — Clara Schumann Copy Share
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
There is nothing greater than the joy of composing something oneself and then listening to it. — Clara Schumann Copy Share
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
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
Every man has his faults; I have and so have you - you will allow me to say so! — Clara Schumann Copy Share
You appear in the Novelletten in every possible circumstance, in every irresistible form... They could only be written by one who knows such eyes… — Clara Schumann Copy Share
