composer, pianist, conductor, music educator, organist, virtuoso, improviser, violinist, writer
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There ought to be an artistic depot where the artist need only hand in his artwork in order to receive what he asks for. As things are, one must be half a business man, and how can one understand - good heavens! - that's what I really call troublesome.
Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?
Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.
O, you men who think or say that I am malevolent, stubborn or misanthropic, how greatly do you wrong me. You do not know the secret cause which makes me seem that way to you, and I would have ended my life - it was only my art that held me back. Ah, it seemed impossible to leave the world until I had brought forth all that I felt was within me.
Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.
There ought to be an artistic depot where the artist need only hand in his artwork in order to receive what he asks for. As things are, one must be half a business man, and how can one understand - good heavens! - that's what I really call troublesome.
Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.
Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
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.
Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.
Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.
Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets, for it and knowledge can raise men to the divine.
Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.
The true artist is not proud: he unfortunately sees that art has no limits; he feels darkly how far he is from the goal, and though he may be admired by others, he is sad not to have reached that point to which his better genius only appears as a distant, guiding sun.