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I was a God-fearing child, innocent and physically attractive.

Robert Schumann

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Robert Schumann
Age: 46 †
Born: 1810
Born: June 8
Died: 1856
Died: July 29
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Robert Alexander Schumann
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The aesthetic principle is the same in every art, only the material differs.
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Confidence and courage are special skills to the art ... Within the four walls of his study, the artist should be modest, work diligently and conscientiously. While for the public, he'll show himself audacious, yes even into cheerful boldness. And so a new public's darling has arisen.
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Can that which has cost the artist days, weeks, months and even years of reflection be understood in a flash by a dilettante?
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It is the curse of talent that, although it labors with greater steadiness and perseverance than genius, it does not reach its goal, while genius already on the summit of the ideal, gazes laughingly about.
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Only when the form grows clear to you, will the spirit become so too.
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When you play, do not trouble yourself as to who is listening. Yet always play as though a master listened to you.
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Send light to the dark hearts of men, that is the duty the artist.
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In order to compose, all you need to do is remember a tune that nobody else has thought of.
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I feel so entirely in my element with a full orchestra even if my mortal enemies were marshalled before me, I could lead them, master them, surround them, or repulse them.
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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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It was an unforgettable picture to see Chopin sitting at the piano like a clairvoyant, lost in his dreams to see how his vision communicated itself through his playing, and how, at the end of each piece, he had the sad habit of running one finger over the length of the plaintive keyboard, as though to tear himself forcibly away from his dream.
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Music induces nightingales to sing, pug dogs to yelp.
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Talent works, genius creates.
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When young, one learns his craftsmanship, may become a young master, and it is youth that is most auspicious for developing certain skills.
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My symphonies would have reached Opus 100 if I had but written them down... Sometimes I am so full of music, and so overflowing with melody, that I find it simply impossible to write down anything.
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The principal mark of genius is not perfection, but originality.
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We shouldn't repeat the same for ages on end, but look into the new as well.
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The poet sees better than other mortals. I do not see things as they are, but according to my own subjective impression, and this makes life easier and simpler.
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You write to become immortal, or because the piano happens to be open, or you've looked into a pair of beautiful eyes.
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