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Think it a vile habit to alter works of good composers, to omit parts of them, or to insert new-fashioned ornaments. This is the greatest insult you can offer to Art.
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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My heart pounds sickeningly and I turn pale... I often feel as if I were dead... I seem to be losing my mind.
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The principal mark of genius is not perfection, but originality.
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Only when the form grows clear to you, will the spirit become so too.
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Nature best teaches how to pray, and how to reverence all the gifts the Almighty has given us. She is like a vast outspread handkerchief, embroidered with God's eternal name, on which we may dry alike our tears of sorrow and of joy she turns weeping into ecstasy, and fills our hearts with speechless, quiet reverence and resignation.
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We liked it or I didn't like it people say. As if it were nothing higher than to please the people!
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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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Art was not created as a way to riches. Strive to become a true artist all else will take care of itself.
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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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People compose for many reasons, to become immortal because the piano happens to be open because they want to become a millionaire because of the praise of friends because they have looked into a pair of beautiful eyes or for no reason whatsoever.
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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 you have received from the Lord,--use it faithfully.
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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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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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Remember, there are more people in the world than yourself. Be modest! You have not yet invented nor thought anything which others have not thought or invented before. And should you really have done so, consider it a gift of heaven which you are to share with others.
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Send light to the dark hearts of men, that is the duty the artist.
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The aesthetic principle is the same in every art, only the material differs.
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If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. therefore, respect every musician in his proper place.
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Talent works, genius creates.
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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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Endeavour to play easy pieces well and with elegance that is better than to play difficult pieces badly.
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You will be most readily cured of vanity or presumption by studying the history of music, and by hearing the master pieces which have been produced at different periods.
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