"The principal mark of genius is not perfection,……" — Robert Schumann
"The principal mark of genius is not perfection, but originality."
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45 Quotes by Robert Schumann
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I am so fresh in soul and spirit that life gushes and bubbles around me in a thousand springs.
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For me, music is always the language which permits one to converse with the Beyond.
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You will be most readily cured of vanity or presumption by studying the history of music, and by hearing the…
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Let your intimate friends be chosen from such as are better informed than yourself.
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You should neither play bad compositions, nor, unless compelled, listen to them.
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From a pound of iron, that costs little, a thousand watch-springs can be made, whose value becomes prodigious. The pound…
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My whole life has been a struggle between Poetry and Prose, or call it Music and Law.
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It was an unforgettable picture to see Chopin sitting at the piano like a clairvoyant, lost in his dreams; to…
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We may be sure that a genius like Mozart, were he born today, would write concertos like Chopin and not…
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People compose for many reasons, to become immortal; because the piano happens to be open; because they want to become…
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We have learned to express the more delicate nuances of feeling by penetrating more deeply into the mysteries of harmony.
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A fiery, good beginner always stands higher than a master in mediocrity...
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Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius.
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I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let…
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There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.
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There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium…
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Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to…
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Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Surely, if knowledge is valuable, it can never be good policy in a country far wealthier than Tuscany, to allow…
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The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.
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Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much…
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From the naturalistic point of view, all men are equal. There are only two exceptions to this rule of naturalistic…
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The man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius, but the greatest genius is not…
— Honore de Balzac
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Character is greater than talent, genius, fame, money, friends - there is nothing to compare with it. A man may…
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