Robert Schumann Quotes

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• Can that which has cost the artist days, weeks, months and even years of reflection be understood in a flash by a dilettante?
• To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.
• If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. therefore, respect every musician in his proper place.
• Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.
• Talent works, genius creates.
• My symphonies would have reached Opus 100 if I had but written them down... Sometimes I am so full of music, and so overflowing with…
• Nature best teaches how to pray, and how to reverence all the gifts the Almighty has given us. She is like a vast outspread handkerchief,…
• I was a God-fearing child, innocent and physically attractive.
• My heart pounds sickeningly and I turn pale... I often feel as if I were dead... I seem to be losing my mind.
• You write to become immortal, or because the piano happens to be open, or you've looked into a pair of beautiful eyes.
• The flame that is naturally clear always gives the most light and heat. If I could blend my talent for poetry and music into one,…
• An evil fate has deprived me of the full use of my right hand, so that I am not able to play my compositions as…
• I feel so entirely in my element with a full orchestra; even if my mortal enemies were marshalled before me, I could lead them, master…
• Mendelssohn I consider the first musician of the day; I doff my hat to him as my superior. He plays with everything, especially with the…
• My indifference to money and my spendthrift ways are disgraceful. You have no idea how reckless I am; how often I practically throw money out…
• The poet sees better than other mortals. I do not see things as they are, but according to my own subjective impression, and this makes…
• Thus it is ever in life. The aims we once pursued no longer satisfy us; we aim, we strive, we aspire, until sight fails, and…
• Without enthusiasm nothing great can be effected in art.
• If, while at the piano, you attempt to form little melodies, that is very well; but if they come into your mind of themselves, when…
• Remember, there are more people in the world than yourself. Be modest! You have not yet invented nor thought anything which others have not thought…

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