Form Quote by Franz Liszt

“Music is never stationary; successive forms and styles are only like so many resting-places - like tents pitched and taken down again on the road to the Ideal.” quote by Franz Liszt — Download Open image

“Music is never stationary; successive forms and styles are only like so many resting-places - like tents pitched and taken down again on the road to the Ideal.”

Franz Liszt

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A person of any mental quality has ideas of his own. This is common sense.

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Supreme serenity still remains the Ideal of great Art. The shapes and transitory forms of life are but stages toward this Ideal, which Christ's…

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