Wish Quotes by Clara Schumann

If I have known much trouble in my youth, I have also known much joy.

— Clara Schumann

I will yield to popular demands only insofar as they do not betray my own convictions.

— Clara Schumann

My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.

— Clara Schumann

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

The tea is ice-cold, the room grows colder and colder, but I grow warmer and warmer.

— Clara Schumann

Treasures are no longer to be got by instrumental art.

— Clara Schumann

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

“He gives me the impression of being a spoilt child. (on Liszt)”

— Clara Schumann

There is nothing greater than the joy of composing something oneself and then listening to it.

— Clara Schumann

Is an artist much more than a beggar?

— Clara Schumann

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

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