"A beautiful sunset that was mistaken for a dawn." — Claude Debussy

Art is the most beautiful deception of all. And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory.

Music is the silence between the notes.

Extreme complication is contrary to art.

First of all, ladies and gentlemen, you must forget that you are singers.

Some people wish above all to conform to the rules, I wish only to render what I can hear. There is no theory. You have only to listen. Pleasure is the law.

Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light.

The attraction of the virtuoso for the public is very like that of the circus for the crowd. There is always the hope that something dangerous will happen.

There is nothing is more musical than a sunset. He who feels what he sees will find no more beautiful example of development in all that book which, alas, musicians read but too little - the book of Nature.

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A beautiful sunset that was mistaken for a dawn.