Clara Schumann Quotes
- I once believed that I possessed creative talent, but I have given up this idea; a woman must not desire to compose — there has…
- 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…
- I wish to lead a life free from care, and I see that I shall be unhappy if I cannot always work at my art.
- Is an artist much more than a beggar?
- You appear in the Novelletten in every possible circumstance, in every irresistible form... They could only be written by one who knows such eyes as…
- I do not want horses or diamonds - I am happy in possessing you.
- My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.
- Why hurry over beautiful things? Why not linger and enjoy them?
- 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?
- The tea is ice-cold, the room grows colder and colder, but I grow warmer and warmer.
- There is nothing greater than the joy of composing something oneself and then listening to it.
- I cannot be so bad when everybody is so fond of me.
- I cannot give a single concert at which I do not play one piece after the other in an agony of terror because my memory…
- Treasures are no longer to be got by instrumental art.
- If I have known much trouble in my youth, I have also known much joy.
- Every man has his faults; I have and so have you - you will allow me to say so!