Robert Schumann Quotes
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Perhaps only a Genius can truly understand Genius.
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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.
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A fiery, good beginner always stands higher than a master in mediocrity.
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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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I sometimes lack confidence in public, although I am proud enough inwardly.
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Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.
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Mendelssohn I consider the first musician of the day; I doff my hat to him as my superior. He plays with everything, especially with the grouping of the instruments in the orchestra, but with such ease, delicacy and art, with such mastery throughout.
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Believe me, were I ever to accomplish anything, it would be in music, which has always attracted me; and, without overestimating myself, I am conscious of possessing a certain creative faculty.
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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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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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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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I am so fresh in soul and spirit that life gushes and bubbles around me in a thousand springs.
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Send light to the dark hearts of men, that is the duty the artist.
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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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That first concept is alway the most naturally and best. The mind errs, the emotion never.
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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.
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Play always as if in the presence of a master.
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My indifference to money and my spendthrift ways are disgraceful. You have no idea how reckless I am; how often I practically throw money out of the window. I am always making good resolutions, but the next minute I forget and give the waiter eightpence.
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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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Let your intimate friends be chosen from such as are better informed than yourself.
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Without enthusiasm nothing great can be effected in art.
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When you play, never mind who listens to you.
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Does it not seem as if Mozart's works become fresher and fresher the oftener we hear them?
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Music owes as much to Bach as religion to its founder.
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Only when the form grows clear to you, will the spirit become so too.
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To compose is to remember music that has never been written.
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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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We shouldn't repeat the same for ages on end, but look into the new as well.
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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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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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