Assessment Quote by Claude Debussy

The worship of Adonis is united with that of Christ.

— Claude Debussy

Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art.

— Claude Debussy

Peter Townsend Music is the silence between the notes.. So could it be said that dance is the stillness between the steps?

— Claude Debussy

Art is the most beautiful deception of all!

— Claude Debussy

But music, don't you know, is a dream from which the veils have been lifted. It's not even the expression of a feeling, it's…

— Claude Debussy

There is nothing more musical than a sunset. He who feels what he sees will find no more beautiful example of development in all…

— Claude Debussy

The attraction of the virtuoso for the public is very like that of the circus for the crowd. There is always the hope that…

— Claude Debussy

Composers aren't daring enough. They're afraid of that sacred idol called 'common sense', which is the most dreadful thing I know - after all,…

— Claude Debussy

If we look at the works of JS Bach ... on each page we discover things which we thought were born only yesterday, from…

— Claude Debussy

the colour of my soul is iron-grey and sad bats wheel about the steeple of my dreams.

— Claude Debussy

Art is the most beautiful of all lies.

— Claude Debussy

Music is the space between the notes.

— Claude Debussy