Art Quote by Nadia Boulanger

“Great art likes chains. The greatest artists have created art within bounds. Or else they have created their own chains.”

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Nothing is better than music; when it takes us out of time, it has done more for us than we have the right to hope for: it has broadened the limits of our sorrowful life, it has lit up the sweetness of our hours of happiness by effacing the pettinesses that diminish us, bringing us back pure and new to…

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Do nothing for effect. Do it for truth.

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A great work of art is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty

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Do not take up music unless you would rather die than not do so.

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It is one thing to be gifted and quite another thing to be worthy of one's own gift.

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As far as the execution is concerned ... the most frequent and most serious mistake is to follow the music instead of preceding it.

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I adore tradition. I cannot stand habit. Simply to repeat is nothing, also to destroy is nothing. Tradition is never interrupted, we are always…

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The history of harmony is the history of the development of the human ear, which has gradually assimilated, in their natural order, the successive…

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In music everything is prolonged, everything is edified, and when the enchantment has ceased, we are still bathed in its clarity; solitude is accompanied…

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To study music, we must learn the rules. To create music, we must break them.

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A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty.

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You should never listen to someone practice. That is their work and theirs alone.

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