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Art Quotes by Ludwig van Beethoven
- Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?
- Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.
- Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.
- No friend have I. I must live by myself alone; but I know well that God is nearer to me than others in my art,…
- I haven't a single friend; I must live alone. But well I know that God is nearer to me than to the others of my…
- There ought to be only one large art warehouse in the world, to which the artist could carry his art-works and from which he could…
- There is no greater pleasure for me than to practice and exhibit my art.
- The world is a king, and like a king, desires flattery in return for favor; but true art is selfish and perverse — it will…
- But what a humiliation for me when someone standing next to me heard a flute in the distance and I heard nothing, or someone standing…
- Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life. Although the spirit be not master of that which it creates through music, yet…
- What will be the judgment a century hence concerning the lorded works of our favorite composers today? Inasmuch as nearly everything is subject to the…
- Recommend virtue to your children, that alone - not wealth - can give happiness. It upholds in adversity and the thought of it and my…
- such incidents brought me to the verge of despair, but little more and I would have put an end to my life - only art…
- Don't only practise your art, but force your way into its secrets.
- Artists are fiery, they do not weep!
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