Quote

Only when the form grows clear to you, will the spirit become so too.

Robert Schumann

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Robert Schumann
Age: 46 †
Born: 1810
Born: June 8
Died: 1856
Died: July 29
Composer
Conductor
Music Critic
Music Pedagogue
Musician
Musicologist
Pianist
Robert Alexander Schumann
Form
Become
Grows
Clear
Spirit

More quotes by Robert Schumann

Image
We shouldn't repeat the same for ages on end, but look into the new as well.
Robert Schumann
Image
Endeavour to play easy pieces well and with elegance that is better than to play difficult pieces badly.
Robert Schumann
Image
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
Image
That first concept is alway the most naturally and best. The mind errs, the emotion never.
Robert Schumann
Image
We have learned to express the more delicate nuances of feeling by penetrating more deeply into the mysteries of harmony.
Robert Schumann
Image
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.
Robert Schumann
Image
Music induces nightingales to sing, pug dogs to yelp.
Robert Schumann
Image
In order to compose, all you need to do is remember a tune that nobody else has thought of.
Robert Schumann
Image
If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. therefore, respect every musician in his proper place.
Robert Schumann
Image
Can that which has cost the artist days, weeks, months and even years of reflection be understood in a flash by a dilettante?
Robert Schumann
Image
The flame that is naturally clear always gives the most light and heat. If I could blend my talent for poetry and music into one, the light would burn still clearer, and I might go far.
Robert Schumann
Image
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.
Robert Schumann
Image
My heart pounds sickeningly and I turn pale... I often feel as if I were dead... I seem to be losing my mind.
Robert Schumann
Image
The aesthetic principle is the same in every art, only the material differs.
Robert Schumann
Image
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.
Robert Schumann
Image
Does it not seem as if Mozart's works become fresher and fresher the oftener we hear them?
Robert Schumann
Image
Talent works, genius creates.
Robert Schumann
Image
We liked it or I didn't like it people say. As if it were nothing higher than to please the people!
Robert Schumann
Image
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.
Robert Schumann
Image
You should neither play bad compositions, nor, unless compelled, listen to them.
Robert Schumann