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The aesthetic principle is the same in every art, only the material differs.

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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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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In order to compose, all you need to do is remember a tune that nobody else has thought of.
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Without enthusiasm nothing great can be effected in art.
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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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We have learned to express the more delicate nuances of feeling by penetrating more deeply into the mysteries of harmony.
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Talent works, genius creates.
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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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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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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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That first concept is alway the most naturally and best. The mind errs, the emotion never.
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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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